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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Do the very best you can.
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Nothing recedes like success.
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
We become what we think about most.
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self.
The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.
Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.
Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation. I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.
Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
When I was eleven, I just got good.
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
If you fall out of favor, you quickly stop being part of the conversation. But it can take one great project to turn things around. All you need is one hit or one great idea well-executed, and everybody's talking about you again.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.
I'm astonished by my success.
The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.
This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, "That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible."
PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action.
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.