Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.
Winning Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 73
You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.
Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
Ann Brashares
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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
Kal Penn
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.
Jacques Pepin
Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
Madeleine M. Kunin
The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
[Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]
The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.
James Hollis
The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.
Kieran Culkin
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.
Adora Svitak
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson
She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.
Kang Seung-jo
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.
Kristin Cashore