success

"But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part …"

"Those responding to Geller's phenomenon by "bending forks" themselves, were following the same pattern. Their ego "roof-brain" had nothing to do with it ."

"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggl…"

"Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often…"

"What light through yonder window breaks?"

"If God has bestowed on us any excellent gift, we imagine it to be our own achievement; and we swell and even burst with pride."

"Newton's achievements in optics alone would probably entitle him to a place on this list; however, they are considerably less important than his accomplishments in pure mathematics and mechanics. His …"

"By ‘successful socialization’ we mean the establishment of a high degree of symmetry between objective and subjective reality."

"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."

", and the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert."

"We define successful aging as including three main components: low probability of disease and disease-related disability, high cognitive and physical functional capacity, and active engagement with li…"

"Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection..."

"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."

"I can’t drive, play football without crying, or successfully use a PS3 controller."

"Orta, leading off, swings and hits it to the right side, and the pitcher has to cover he is ... SAFE! SAFE! SAFE! And we'll have an argument! Sparky, I think he was out!"

"There is no such thing as success in a bad business."

"Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck."

"When socialism comes through the door, employment jumps out the window."

"The two great conceptual revolutions of twentieth-century science, the overturning of classical physics by Werner Heisenberg and the overturning of the foundations of mathematics by Kurt Gödel, occurr…"

"Great achievements require gigantic efforts, without which our progress sound to be slow."