The success of a close friend ...

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
 Tom Baker

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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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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
 Tom Baker
My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
 Tom Baker
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
 Tom Baker
I've learned It's the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.
 Tom Baker
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
 Tom Baker