If you're smart, you abandon ...

If you\'re smart, you abandon the things that didn\'t work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.
If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.
 John Baldessari

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?
 Mark Sanchez
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
 Sebastian Coe

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I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.
 John Baldessari
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?
 John Baldessari
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.
 John Baldessari
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.
 John Baldessari