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«The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.»
«Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding»
«It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.»
Author: Gordon Mackenzie
| About:
Creativity,
Discovery,
Experience
| Keywords:
Corporations, discovering, experimenting, just about, succeeding, The Corporation
«Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.»
Author: Julie Andrews
(Actress, Singer)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
failing, perseverance, succeeding
«If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.»
Author: Mike Schmidt
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Baseball,
Effort
| Keywords:
dirt, equate, equated, measured, physically, put in, succeeding, uniform, uniforms
«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
adopted, apt, contemporaries, dependent, dependent on, fare, fared, fares, faring, Frost, frosted, frosting, frosts, if not, inherent, injured, irrespective, lured, lures, luring, merit, practical, retard, retarded, retarding, sprout, sprouting, succeeding, The Contemporary, timely
«Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
build up, fade, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, indelibly, mental picture, permit, stamp, succeeding, tenaciously
«Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded»
Author: Walter Lippman
(Editor, Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
succeeded, succeeding, The Victors, vanquished, victors
«There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Losing,
Trying
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, succeeding
«Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Perseverance,
Success,
Trying
| Keywords:
agreement, coming together, furtherance, in agreement, perseverance, sublimity, succeeding, The Coming, The Foundation
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