With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Experience tells us that a good foundation is critical for success in the Arctic and elsewhere. ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 project with Rosneft is an example where we have put this experience to work.
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.
Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.
Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
The true success is the person who invented himself.
In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
The road to success is always under construction.
Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.
I'd never read 'Prince Caspian'. I watched it and loved that film. Everybody was talking about its lack of success; its relative success in comparison to the other film. It's a great film. It deserved to do a lot better than it did. It's very difficult to make a film that will match up to the first.
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.
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.
Democrats hate success.
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
