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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.