“About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.” PeopleKnowsChanceSuccessfulRichSubjectsWindOne DayMilesShipsTidesHarborsPortEntrancesDriftingRuddersAdriftCoastline Author:Earl Nightingale
“Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.” DoeMatterSuccessfulSubjectsPaintingDetermineInterpretationEquationsSubject Matter Author:Robert Reynolds
“Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.” Has BeensMatterUseLightSoundViewsSuccessfulSubjectsFiguresDesignColorUniqueShadowDeterminePoint Of ViewCommandPainterCraftsVarietyDramaticBeing SuccessfulCompetenceTextureHarmoniousSubject MatterSophisticationLight And ShadowPortrayal Author:Nelson Shanks
“The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.” HumansGovernmentEvilPoorSuccessfulDoubtSubjectsInstitutionsTyrannyAttributesDistressSupporterIniquity Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population
“The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.” ThinkingFeelingsScienceSuccessfulSubjectsComputerMathematicsMathematician Author:Kenneth Appel
“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.” ShouldLongUseFatherPoorClassSuccessfulRichMiddleSubjectsMankindHigherLettersOrganizationDisasterMiddle ClassExecutivesStationsPassagesExposedCalamitySalesmanVicissitudesRobinson Crusoe Author:B. C. Forbes
“It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.” MenFirstsFactsJesusChristSuccessfulSawsWonderfulBloodSubjectsComfortMen And WomenCharitySavedRespectabilityBlood Of Jesus Author:Dwight L. Moody