A Quotes
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“A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.”
“A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.”
“A successful coach is one who is still coaching.”
“A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.”
“A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it”
“A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."”
“A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.”
“A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them.”
“A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its beauty, then the nose with its scent, the tongue with its tastes and the palate with its material qualities. Kougan – literally 'mouthfeel' – is an essential part of the enjoyment of eating, which is an all-embracing sensory experience.”
Source: Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.”
“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.”
“A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.”
Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.”
“A successful expert would possess thorough understanding of a specific topic within a course of study and translate a complex problem or concept into simple language for an average person to understand.”
“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”
“A successful hacking methodology is built on accumulated experience with diverse techniques, explored creatively.”
“A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero.”
“A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.”
“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”
“A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.”
“A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.”
“A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.”
Source: If You Ask Me
“A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.”
“A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.”
“A successful life is not about attaining a wealthy status, but being able to create a life that guarantees one's happiness, no matter how big or small it may seem.”
“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.”
“A successful life requires one to swallow any form of pride and work hard. No one succeeds by pretending to be successful in life.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.”
“A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.”
“A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.”
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
“A successful man is the one who does more of all he does in other to service humanity”
“A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.”
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
“A successful marriage is based on shared beliefs and respect, not idealistic passions.”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.”
“A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.”
Source: Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...
“A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.”
“A successful marriage needs much more than, love, care, and feelings. A woman can choose to be totally submissive in a marriage, like in a patriarchal set-up where she will have a happy married life, but not guaranteed if she will be happy or not. Or she can decide on what makes her happy and choose that life. Marriage is not about the happiness of one person at the cost of other.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“A successful merger or acquisition is defined by integration. It's about how well the two entities can integrate with one another and achieve unity.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“A successful mindset does not mean you will not experience uncertainty or even fear. It simply means that you won’t believe, trust, nor take direction from it.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.”
“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.”
Source: Mass, identity, architecture: architectural writings of Jean Baudrillard
“A successful onboarding process sets the stage for long-term employee engagement and loyalty.”