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“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.”

“Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.”

Ifs Persons Helping Successful Failing Emotional Overcoming Difficulty Worthless Psychiatry Priceless Psychiatric

Book:Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.”

Thinking Way Trying Country Certain Left Successful Habit Difficulty France Being Successful Way Of Thinking

Author:Thomas Sankara

“A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.”

Men World Should Two Three Names Successful Modern Difficulty Be A Man Modern Life Surgeons

Author:Denton Cooley

“If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.”

Ifs Men Real Use Wealth Poor Attention Successful Serious Difficulty Income Employed

Book:A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

Source: A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

“I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was making notable headway, although his path bristled with difficulties. Business places no premiums on shrinking violets. Employers prefer men who have self-assurance, forcefulness, go-aheadness, men who know their jobs and know that they know it.”

“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm”

“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

“Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.”

People Looks Kind Two Stories Successful Pieces Example Difficulty Response Studios Eight Lowest Slow Motion Lowest Point

Author:David Fincher

“There will be difficulties to face on the way to being successful. You can weather the storms.”

Way Faces Successful Difficulty Storm Weather Being Successful

Author:Denise Austin