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When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.
Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.
American diversity rarely applies to money and success.
You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.
Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
Success doesn't come to yo, YOU GO TO IT.
The greater your wisdom, the shorter the distance to success.
I dreamt of worldly success once.
It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.
If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.
Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.