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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I had flops, I had success.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Together we knew that we could have success.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.