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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.