#success

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew. ↗

— Steven Adler

#always #appetite #destruction #doubt #dreams

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. ↗

— Vicente Aleixandre

#poet #poetry #poses #questions #succession

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. ↗

— Ted Allen

#combination #eye #form #funny #good

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#back #become #books #could #death

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#born #moses #son #success

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life #quick #seems #succession

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#frighten #get #people #success #sudden

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a destructive waste of time. And if that isn't enough to keep in mind, your techniques must always be allowed to evolve and change, in relationships, in life, in science, in society. Otherwise you stagnate, and you won't get anywhere in the long run... You know what the philosopher Aldous Huxley said? He said 'Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ↗

— Tony Vigorito

#wasting-time #change