"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful."
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"The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life."
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"Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples."
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"Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity."
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"I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it."
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"There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'."
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"Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others."
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"Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy."
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"We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him."
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"Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones."
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"Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start."
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"The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community."
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"The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades."
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"The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it."
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"The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes."
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"One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book."
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"In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful."
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"The successful writer listens to himself."
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"Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it."
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"Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it."
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