"Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful."
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"Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful."
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"The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue."
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"When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success."
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"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
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"If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work."
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"Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too."
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"Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation."
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"When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'."
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"If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative."
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"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
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"The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy."
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"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."
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"It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology."
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"The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process."
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"A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless."
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"What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means."
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"When I was in a meeting, I got advice that was someone telling me that in order to be successful, I needed to create the character Mac Miller that couldn't be the same person as who I really was."
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"When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful."
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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
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