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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

The best revenge in the world is success.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.