#success

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money. ↗

— Christine McVie

#blues #care #commercially #got #i

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#writing #fearless

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ↗

— Golda Meir

#better #her #job #man #much

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. ↗

— John Forbes Nash

#better #both #eventually #felt #had

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#funny #humor #just #made #melancholy

Man is an end in himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life #objectivism #philosophy #success #life

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#perseverance #success #strength

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#success

Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#reyna #rick-riordan #son-of-neptune #success

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. ↗

— Garth Stein

#ignorance #success