1,420 Quotes About Successful

  • Author David Allen
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    What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.

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  • Author David J. Anderson
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    Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

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  • Author Edward Albee
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    I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

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  • Author Emanuel Ax
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    Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

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  • Author Hank Aaron
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    Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

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  • Author Isabel Allende
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    And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

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  • Author James Altucher
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    Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

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