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I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

My success is not who I am.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.