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“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.”

Men Wells Doe Sometimes Women Pay Attention Succeed Pay Attention

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed”

Way Sometimes Use Success Used Actors Causes Careers Taken Students Mines Buddhism Succeed Interviews

Author:Frederick Lenz

“That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.”

Mind Humans Ends Sometimes Hands School Law Women Voice Masters Proud Succeed Equal Harmony Crowds Appreciation Manners Gentle Reeds Somber Cedars

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.”

Trying Persons Sometimes Quality Leader Nice Failing Personality Succeed Nice Person Trust Others

Author:Simon Sinek

“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”

Sometimes Life Is Emotion Quality Our Lives Poet Succeed Fixed Steel Vocabulary Quality Of Life Life Is Like Rendering

Author:Laura Huxley

“The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.”

Thinking World Sometimes Evil Effects Succeed Devil Constant Intention Intense Occasions Excellent Concentration Manifest Crusades

Book:The devils of Loudon

Source: The devils of Loudon

“The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.”

“Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.”

Sometimes Succeed Spite Upbringing

Book:Unmanned

Source: Unmanned

“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.”

Ifs Men Mind May Persons Sometimes Feelings Young Fall Known Youth Succeed Down And Casts Young Man Injury Injured

Book:The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.”

“A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.”

Two Sometimes Desire Politics Force Succeed Oneself Contradictory Coexist Desire To Succeed

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.”

Ifs Long Ends Sometimes Remember Forget Race Behinds Advice Succeed Waste Insult Compliment Don't Waste Your Time Sunscreen Compliments You Wear Sunscreen

Book:The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.”

Sometimes Wisdom Fun Succeed Suicide Commit Trickery

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.”

Wells Children Sometimes Succeed Our Children Opposition Wipe

Author:Desmond Tutu

“You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.”

Way Inspirational Sometimes Inspiration Motivational Motivation Succeed Surviving Unorthodox

Author:Michael Johnson

“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

“And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!”

Humans Sometimes Running Sleep Sun Journey Succeed Rivers Wave Various Woods Endless Human Life Shade Mead

Book:The Poems of J. D. The Life of J. D. by Dr. Johnson. The British Poets, Etc

Source: The Poems of J. D. The Life of J. D. by Dr. Johnson. The British Poets, Etc

“Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.”

Real Sometimes Film Successful Succeed Disaster

Author:John Rhys-Davies

“I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Desire Language Hurt Failing Succeed Communicate Violent Triumph It Hurts Sometimes It Hurts

Author:Claudia Rankine

“There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things that people can latch onto and say, "Yeah, I feel like that sometimes." It can be inspiring or it can be something that keeps you sane when you're not feeling well.”

People Feels Humans Wells Sometimes Feelings Succeed Bigger Yeah Pops Sane Versus Pop Music Latches Not Feeling Well

Author:John Dieterich

“Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Results Failure Succeed Judgment Faculty Undertakings Hinder Owing

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.”

Trying Sometimes Quality Leader Failing Succeed Trust Others

Author:Simon Sinek

“I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.”

People Wells Sometimes Whole Speak Felt Failing Becoming Succeed Imperfection Attempting Playwright

Author:Annie Baker

“I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.”

People Thinking Different Sometimes Care Desire Nice Succeed Upset Cynical Cynicism Frustrated Going To Work Quirky Whimsical

Author:Michel Gondry

“I spend quite a bit of time thinking about my students. I look at them, at their work, I listen to what they tell me, and try to figure out who they might become in the best of all possible worlds. This is not easy. Students try to give you clues; sometimes they look at you as if imploring you to understand something about them that they don't yet have the means to articulate. How can one succeed at this? And how can one do it 20 times over for all the students in a class? It's impossible, of course. I know this, but I try anyway. It's tiring.”

Thinking World Giving Trying Mean Sometimes Easy Impossible Students Succeed Clue Tire

Author:Phoebe Gloeckner

“America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.”

People Country Sometimes Reason Inspiration Beautiful Politician Promise Succeed Hypocrisy Telling The Truth Discouraged Hypocritical Apathetic

Author:Ernie Chambers

“Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.”

World Sometimes Dream Might Jobs Growing Failing Risk Changed Succeed Strive Work Out Apples Taking Risks

Author:Mitt Romney

“Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.”

People World Sometimes Whole Heaven Known Virtue This World Succeed Advantage Selfish Pursuit Flattery Networking Obscurity Idealistic Tainted

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.”

Ifs Men World Life Sometimes Remember Success Secret Risk Succeed Beats Fortune Dare Yield Maxims Attacking

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Desire Wonder Pure Succeed Perseverance Burning Burning Desire Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Tanya Tucker

“In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”

Art Sometimes Practice Honesty Policy Succeed

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”

Ifs Believe Long Sometimes Hard Enough Values Belief Waiting Difficult Secret Succeed Fairs Hard To Believe Bright Days

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Matter Struggle Talent Succeed Findings Get Better Have Faith Display Consistently Great Talent

Author:Laura Kasischke

“Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.”

“No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.”

Looks Sometimes Turns Causes Stuff Space Watches Succeed Doctors Bigger Blue Boxes Shut Up Time And Space Doctor Who Blink Blokes

Author:Neil Gaiman

“There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.”

Trying Sometimes Able Form Political Succeed Strategy Right Thing

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.”

People Knows Sometimes Might Choices Levels Our Lives Fate Failing Shapes Succeed Seeking Permanent Our Family Temporary Surround Subconscious Configuration

Author:Simon Pegg

“You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.”

People Want Sometimes Care Teacher Succeed Professors

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.”

World Sometimes Dream Common Succeed Speech Creator Viruses Wildest Dreams

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”

“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.”

Sometimes Opportunity Failing Succeed Clean Slate Clean Slate

Author:Gretchen Rubin