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“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.”

People Thinking Self Running Ability Successful Focus Taught Thread Successful People Self Taught

Author:Fred L. Turner

“Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.”

Ability Successful Songwriting Songwriters Innate

Author:Barry Mann

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.”

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”

Ifs Men Persons Can Do Ability Business Successful Honesty Honor Profession Chosen Honorable Deserving Successful Person

Author:Will Rogers

“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”

People Ifs Writing May Light Felt Can Do Ability Effort Quality Successful Particular Bottom Being Successful Recalls Temperature

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.”

Knows Men Spirit Opportunity Wish Ability Know How Successful Events Offers Fortune Conclusion Seize The Opportunity

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.”

Ability Successful Horrible Admire Mess Abstraction Unix Perl

Author:Erik Naggum

“What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.”

Writing Book Ability Successful One Thing Sentences Steady Good Book Stamina

Author:Katy Lederer

“COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.”

“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.”

“Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.”

Firsts Artist Opportunity Ability Successful Conscious Finance Being Successful Without Music Notoriety

Author:Curtis Jackson

“It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.”

Giving May Doe Individual Energy Ability Successful Achievement Training Conscious Code Being Successful Inadequacy Individual Achievement

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“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.”

Has Beens Ability Successful Speed Gaps Receiving Publishing Submission Publish Profile Leaks Pipeline

Author:Julian Assange

“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.”

Reading Force Sides Ability Study Successful Judging Investing Tape Pulling

Book:Studies in Tape Reading

Source: Studies in Tape Reading

“I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.”

Ability Successful Unique Los Angeles Qualifications Dodgers Great Confidence

Author:Joe Torre

“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”

People Science Passion Next Imagination Ability Quality Successful Too Much Magic Medicine Indispensable Find Me

Book:Philosophical Writings of Peirce

Source: Philosophical Writings of Peirce

“They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.”

Way Want Play Mother Girl Enjoy Ability Careers Successful Skills Valuable Tenderness Nurture Workplace Being A Mother Successful Career

Author:Anne Roiphe

“When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.”

Years Long Shows Waiting Leadership Chance Ability Leader Careers Gone Successful Wings Retiring Unlikely Somewhere Else Successors Caliber Long Careers Successful Leaders

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.”

Persons Problem Ability Healing Successful Conflict Tests Difficulty Work Out Arise Successful Person

Author:David J. Schwartz

“The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for successful careers. I'm thrilled that more than 10,000 youth of all abilities and backgrounds have already benefited from this important program and I look forward to our impressive team of Employment Ontario partners continuing to work with businesses across the province to help young people build a brighter future for Ontario.”

“The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.”

Ifs Mind Process Ability Successful Keys Personality Succeed Strategy Investment Evolve Characteristics Investors Dogmatic Ability To Change Investment Success

Author:Jack D. Schwager

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