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“If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.”

People Ifs Needs Two Speak Successful Lots Of Money

Author:Jodie Foster

“Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.”

Want Should Mind Two Successful Five Pieces Reader Just One Nonfiction Provocative

Author:William Zinsser

“Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.”

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Author:Charles Kimbrough

“Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.”

Years Two Care Given Animal Successful Brother Cat Sick Australia Brothers And Sisters Foster Care

Author:Jason Gann

“Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.”

Persons Two Remember Successful Depends Findings Two Things Right Person Marriage Equality Successful Marriage Finding The Right Person

Author:Carrie Snow

“The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.”

Thinking Two Ends Use Reality Motivational Success Lord Successful Depends Congratulations Loose Ends

Author:Ann Landers

“There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.”

Ifs Should Kind Two Sound Results Successful Judged Yardsticks

Book:The Duke Ellington Reader

Source: The Duke Ellington Reader

“The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them.”

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Book:The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition

Source: The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition

“All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.”

Made Two Ends Stories Path Successful Century Terrible Errors Ruins Savages Jane Reckless 19th Century Downfall Hubris Austen

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.”

Thinking World Should Has Beens Two Artist Successful One Day Should Have Stations Should Have Been Showcase Future World

Author:John Hench

“Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.”

Two Simple Successful Elements Eating Conscious Tables Cooking Prepared Stranger Welcome Meals Guests Gathering Family Friends

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.”

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Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.”

People Knows Two Important Opportunity Pay Attention Half Successful Minutes Pay Attention Successful People Exceed Attention Span

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.”

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Author:Vince Gill

“My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.”

Two Father President Company Successful Dad Entrepreneur My Dad Balanced Unbelievable Successful Company

Author:Rachel Zoe

“People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.”

People Ifs Two Self Successful Drama Partnership Sustaining

Author:Mick Jagger

“First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.”

Writing Firsts Two Running Song Successful Five Wonderful Luck Albums Pops

Author:Barry Manilow

“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

“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.”

Source: Oil!

“In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"”

Ifs Years Mind Two Ends Reason Worry Successful Havens Add Ill Reason Why Good Times No Reason Successful Life Had A Good Time

Author:Alain de Botton

“I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.”

Thinking Two Reason Black White Successful My Time Villain Black And White Gigs

Author:Mark Strong

“There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.”

People Two Three Company Principles Successful Products Profit Operations Handful Successful Business Basic Principles

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It is not fair to get into ratings. It really doesn't matter what I think about other actresses; what matters is what the directors think of them when they are casting them in a project, because I think it's the director who's behind a successful piece of cinema.”

“When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.”

Years Two Three Goal Successful Cinema Three Years

Author:John Waters

“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“Treasures in heaven are more permanent. They are more satisfying. There are only two reasons why we are not as successful as we would like to be in laying up earthly treasures. One is that we sometimes get into the wrong business; and the second reason is that even though we may be in the right business, we do not always work at it effectively. Interestingly enough, these are the same reasons why we fail in laying up treasures in heaven.”

May Two Sometimes Reason Enough Heaven Business Successful Failing Treasure Permanent Reason Why Satisfying Treasures In Heaven

Author:Sterling W Sill

“I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.”

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Author:Wale

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

“Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.”

“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.”

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Author:David Fincher

“I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.”

Thinking Two Actors Successful Wonderful Directors Decided Great Respect

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.”

Ifs Thinking Two Successful Two Things Cookbook

Author:Thomas Keller

“The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.”

Two Successful Enterprise Zeal Fidelity Qualifications

Book:Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist.”

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Author:Keith Rabois

“Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.”

People Stills Two Government Successful Remains Experiments Internals Maintenance Formidable

Book:Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress

Source: Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress

“These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.”

Thinking Years Wells Has Beens Two Hands Enjoy Successful Two Things Contests Hand In Hand

Author:Kelly Clark

“Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.”

Ifs Feels Writing Doe Two Certain Sides Creative Successful Like You Balance Skills Productions Producers Sparks Creative Spark

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“For those of us at Marvel Television, it always begins with the story. It's all about the script. It's making sure it's there, on the page. So, we needed to go to a group of individuals who have not only created some of the most memorable animated characters, like Ben 10 and Generator Rex, but also had done two seasons of our very successful Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man series, and that's the Man of Action guys. But, it wasn't just that.”

“I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."”

Thinking Two Sometimes Whole Christian Spiritual Life Is Realizing Secret Successful Position Essence Absolutes Two Things Spiritual Life Confidence In God No Confidence

Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that's what happened.”

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Author:Wes Craven

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. When you're afraid, keep your mind on what you have to do...if you have been thoroughly prepared, you will not be afraid. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him... and both will be successful.”

People World Kind Two Successful Being Successful

Author:Kenneth Boa