#succeed

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#believe #chess #contradict #creating #every

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#burning #burning desire #desire #going #having

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. ↗

— David Viscott

#any #consequence #effort #enthusiasm #face

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. ↗

— An Wang

#future #important #important thing #jeopardize #make

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#design #each #entertainment #episode #i

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. ↗

— Joe Baca

#at-risk #chance #children #educational #fair

Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is – it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#esteem #growth #personality-traits #self-actualization #self-esteem

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff in order to prove them wrong. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#succeed #life