"Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene."
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"You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding."
"Fox succeeds because it's entertaining. It's like a rightwing freak show."
"He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray."
"Either attempt it not, or succeed."
"You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people."
"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized."
"Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other."
"Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail."
"I failed so therefore I succeed."
"The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed."
"I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds."
"Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success."
"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent"
"The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all."
"Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements."
"The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation."
"Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail."
"Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent."
"An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation."