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Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ↗

— Epictetus

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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ↗

— James Thurber

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Fame and success are very different things. ↗

— Enya

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The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. ↗

— Enya

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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. ↗

— Enya

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The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

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It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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