"The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice."
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"I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about."
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"I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success."
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"There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company."
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"I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert."
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"A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation."
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"No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing."
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"The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful."
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"It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful."
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"I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on."
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"When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality."
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"I think when you can actually do what you love to do, if it's a little play somewhere, if it's a photo, if it's anything- if you can somehow do what you want and do a really good job at it, I think that's pretty successful."
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"Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft."
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"Time is a big enemy. Companies have a tendency to drift and to do what was successful yesterday. CEOs need to set a high goal, enforce a time-based output scheme and stay connected all the way down in their organization. They have to do this sincerely every day, everywhere."
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"For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night."
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"I stand by my record. I did some sharp things to get things right - too harsh - but a lot was at stake. But at the end of the day, what have I got? Just a successful Singapore."
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"All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on."
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"Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol."
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"Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them."
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"I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents."
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