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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
– Keith Henson
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Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
– W. Clement Stone
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Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
– Paul Feig
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Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.
– Dannii Minogue
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Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
– Robert Rodriguez
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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
– John McEnroe
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Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'
– Bill Cosby
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Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
– Ludwig Quidde
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
– Yann Martel
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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
– Joni Mitchell
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Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
– Samuel Witwer
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
– George Murray
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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
– Nolan Ryan
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
– James Dyson
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
– Edsger Dijkstra
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Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
– Benjamin Carson
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Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
– Maude Adams
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
– Tom Petty
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Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
– Peter Singer
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Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
– Michael Crawford
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Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
– Justin Guarini
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
– Mario Andretti
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Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
– Nancy Pelosi
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
– Gary Ryan Blair
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
– Jonathan Kozol
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
– Bodhidharma
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
– Jose Mourinho
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But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
– Herodotus
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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
– Jeff Goodell
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Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
– Peter Guber
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
– Damien Hirst
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Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.
– Brett Favre
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At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.
– Christy Romano
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At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
– Jane D. Hull
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At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
– Franz Beckenbauer
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As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
– Joseph Prince
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As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
– Jimmy Carr
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
– Al Yankovic
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As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
– Charlie Sheen
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
– Ann Romney
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
– Malcolm Mclaren
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Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
– Ricky Williams
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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
– Sam Donaldson
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And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
– Maximilian Schell
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
– Henri Matisse
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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
– Fred Allen
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
– Rand Paul
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America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.
– Thomas Peterffy
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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
– Toby Young
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Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.
– Liz Phair
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
– Vera Wang
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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
– Chris Van Hollen
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
– Manny Pacquiao
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All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
– Kevin Smith
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All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
– Danny Thomas
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
– Alberto Giacometti
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
– Mason Cooley
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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
– Charlie Gonzalez
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A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.
– Tim Holden
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
– Ellen Glasgow
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A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
– Andy Samberg
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A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
– Arne Duncan
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
– Alec Waugh
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
– Bill Shankly
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
– Elbert Hubbard
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
– Grover Cleveland
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A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
– Robin Tunney
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Success isn't what others can see, but how you feel. It's living your truth and doing what makes you truly happy. That's success.
– Robert Tew
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
– James Cook
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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal.
– Halford E. Luccock
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It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
– Halford E. Luccock
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