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“I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.”

People Should Trying Waiting Failing Succeed You Only Live Once Trying To Succeed

Author:Zara Phillips

“Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.”

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.”

Ifs Should Done School Succeed Ideals Workers Technique Crafts Idealism Skilled Workers

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.”

Knows Should Success Talking Too Much Written Seeing Industry Succeed Dresses Presses Shoes Meant To Be

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”

“I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.”

Should Children Stories Novel Effects Adventure Succeed Should Have Profound Radio Familiar Mediums Comic Listeners Comic Strips

Author:Orson Welles

“Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.”

“Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? —”

World Way Should Country Generations Succeed Forefathers Midwife

Book:Lark Rise to Candleford

Source: Lark Rise to Candleford

“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

Ifs Needs Should Book America Given Chance Mystery Taste Succeed Should Have Sells Ashamed Trash

Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

“In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.”

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.”

Should Nations Succeed Agree Livelihood Plunder

Author:Anthony Eden

“A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.”

Knows Should Boys Know How Lessons Succeed Ties Succeeding In Life

Author:Antwone Fisher

“It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.”

Men Should Doe Winning Succeed Mark Posts Reasonable Coward Helpless

Book:Parallel Lives - Complete

Source: Parallel Lives - Complete

“I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).”

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention of everyone to understand where we've come from and where we might be going. We need to understand the world around us if we are to succeed as a species on the planet.”

Ifs World Needs Should Doe Matter Might Earth Attention Planets Development Evolution Succeed Species Evolution Of Life

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.”

Should Made Age Imagine Succeed Wit Former Expenses Provision

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]”

Should Trying Wells Doe Enough Succeed Favors Merit Sat Patron

Author:Plautus

“Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.”

Should May Happens Perfect Succeed Tables Spread Wit Boat Indifference Native Gaming Jest Poignancy Mackerel

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.”

Ifs Way Should Persons Long Made Wish Mistake Succeed Honestly Welcome Cures Sickness Sincerely Made A Mistake Comrade Lashes

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”

Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...

“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.”

“I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Said I Can Play Jobs Moving Mistake Succeed Sorry I'm Sorry Keep Moving

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.”

People Should Two Wish Ability Deals Succeed Skills Should Have Sells

Author:Shiv Khera

“Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.”

Should Government Decision Company Failing Succeed Should Have Federal Government Bad Decision Bailouts

Author:Matt Salmon

“Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.”

Should Writing Matter Succeed Letters Printed Sowing Confidential

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.”

Ifs Should Country Democracy Failing Groups Military Revolution Succeed Spring Democratic Experiments Elsewhere Other Countries Egypt Islamists Arab Spring

Author:David Ignatius

“The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.”

Ifs Should School Form Order Speak Process Interest Class Boys Teacher Succeed Accounts Mathematics Psychological Abstract Psychics Presentation Systematic Diplomats Upper Class

Author:Felix Klein

“Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.”

Ifs Men Should Doe Play Success Young Games Sound Depends Genius Succeed Ordinary Obstacles Young Man Spite Not Afraid Business Success Handicaps

Author:James Cash Penney

“It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.”

Should Book Lost Wise Generations Succeed Highest Posterity Provision Publication Refinement Transmit

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.”

Ifs Needs Should Looks Important Remember Duty Succeed Anxiety Claims Aim Simplicity Complicated Priorities Fringe Garments Dominating Complicated Life

Author:Anna Brackett

“Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.”

Men Should Death Dies Periods Succeed Fixed Usual

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.”

Ifs World Should Stills Passion Chance Succeed Expectations Fairs Eternity Fellows Noble Mortals Disappointed Our Thoughts Another World Adventurer

Author:Gilbert Burnet

“Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.”

Should Looks Ideas Ends Matter America Opportunity Nations Promise Succeed Equal Essentials Should Have Who You Are Determine Outcomes Equal Opportunity Where You Come

Author:Barack Obama

“If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.”

Ifs Should Trying Firsts Succeed Quitting Worthwhile Try Again Wasting Your Time

Author:Ingrid Weir

“What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.”

Ifs World Should Writing Firsts Can Do Attention Worry Focus Succeed Demon Maintaining

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.”

Way Should States Bigs Force United United States Gone Issues Clear Middle Military Succeed Iraq East Middle East Venture Military Force

Author:Milton Friedman

“I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.”

Needs Should Kind Helping Kids School Accepting Support Trouble Students Serious Succeed Highest Agree Proportion Public School Charter

Author:Diane Ravitch

“You should use your influence to help other platforms succeed.”

Should Helping Use Leadership Influence Succeed Helping Others Platforms

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.”

Thinking Should Trying Sometimes Feelings Differences Powerful Effort Accepting Failing Right Now Succeed Exciting Lifetime Celebrate Productive Enjoyable

Author:Martha Beck

“Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.”

People World Giving Should Littles Fighting Enjoy Accepting Destiny Streets Achieve Example Succeed Enjoy Life Defiance Proactive Life And Change

Author:Haifaa al-Mansour

“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.”

Thinking Should Mind Firsts Believe Form Accepting Circumstances Succeed Thinking Differently

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.”

Should Wells Enough Failing Succeed

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.”

Ifs Should Trying Remember Difficult Succeed Daring Full Potential

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.”

Source: The Wooden-Sharman method: a guide to winning basketball

“The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.”

Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

“If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.”

Ifs Should Firsts Certain Order Groups Succeed Fifty Enterprise Lions Obliged Deer Order To Succeed

Author:Vincent de Paul