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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.