Was it always my nature to ...

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
 Lillian Hellman

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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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
 Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
 Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
 Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
 Lillian Hellman
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
 Lillian Hellman