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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

1983

★ 1.0

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

1931

★ 1.1

The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

1949

★ 1.1

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Barbra Streisand

Life Magazine · 1963

★ 1.2

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least.

Leonardo da Vinci

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects · 1568

★ 1.3

Personal journal

He never lets the logic of principle, displace the logic of success.

Abraham Lincoln

1859

★ 1.3

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease.

1906

★ 1.8

There is only one success, he said to himself-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

1922

★ 1.8

The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains.

The Rise of David Levinsky · 1917

★ 1.9

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

1935

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an Excellence.

1669

★ 1.9

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

1755

★ 1.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1821

★ 1.9

I don't talk about success, I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Imogen Cunningham

1975

★ 1.9

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

1872

★ 2.0

Success is a result; it must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

1876

★ 2.0

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

1950

★ 2.0

Interview · Magazine

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.

1956

★ 2.0

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

1995

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

Psalm 20:4

450 BC

★ 2.1

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