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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds of forecasts.
Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.
I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
Whatever I have to do to help my team win. I don't care how many carries it is. As long as it's successful and we've got the ball, I'm all for it.
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.
My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.
Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.
I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.
You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.
The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.
The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.
Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.
One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.
Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.
I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.
I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility. You have to show a degree of flexibility.
Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.
It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.