If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
~By John Leonard ~
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
~By Bianca Jagger ~
You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
~By Betty Cuthbert ~
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
~By Peter Lynch ~
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
~By Charlie Sheen ~
I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
~By Tom Selleck ~
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
~By Betty Friedan ~
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
~By Seth Godin ~
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
~By William Hazlitt ~
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
~By Glenn Beck ~
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
~By Anna Friel ~
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
~By Larry King ~
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
~By Ed Rendell ~
I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
~By Paul Ryan ~
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
~By Tom Skerritt ~
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
~By Saunders Lewis ~
There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
~By Natalie Wood ~
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
~By Al Green ~
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
~By Joe Baca ~
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.
~By Jane Byrne ~
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
~By Carl Levin ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
~By John McEnroe ~
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
~By Sophocles ~
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
~By Ramana Maharshi ~
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
~By David Merrick ~
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
~By Leo Kottke ~
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
~By Judy Collins ~
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
~By Earl Warren ~
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
~By Kenneth Baker ~
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
~By Ed Smith ~
Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
~By Jean Renoir ~
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
~By Harry Banks ~
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
~By Ted Levine ~
Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
~By Eddie Perez ~
I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.
~By Jody Watley ~
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.
~By Amar Bose ~
You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
~By Rand Beers ~
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
~By Ichiro Suzuki ~
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
~By Pat Summerall ~
In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
~By Ferdinand Piech ~
We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
~By Bill Dixon ~
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~By Herman Melville ~
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
~By William Glasser ~
We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~By Gore Vidal ~
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
~By Larry Flynt ~
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~
Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
~By Bobby Charlton ~
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
~By Henry Kravis ~
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
~By Douglas Bader ~
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
~By Alan Lewis ~
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
~By An Wang ~
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
~By James A. Garfield ~
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
~By Greil Marcus ~
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.
~By Mary Bono ~
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
~By Michael York ~
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
~By Francis Maude ~
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
~By Michael Korda ~
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as 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.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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