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"Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies."
"Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas."
"It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help."
"When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick."
"If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best."
"The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life."
"In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome."
"Inspiration and genius -one and the same."
"Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators."
"In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be."
"If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful."
"If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful."
"Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances."
"I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements."
"What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass."
"I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely."
"To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it."
"If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris."
"The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing."
"You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge."
