success

"My ability to persuade my wife to marry me quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace a…"

"The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared w…"

"Stern is a goalscorer but did not score for us in seven games."

"The waves were indifferent, and the wind; and the rocks neither knew nor cared who owned them, Christ’s Vicar or an English King."

"What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world."

"Anyone who isn’t strong is left in a corner, no one asks for their autograph, they are abandoned in the cold shadows. Those who win, however, become icons."

"... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races."

"New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate."

"It seemed that he gazed down on me from the height of his divinity with the aloof though passionate attention of an artist judging his finished work; calmly rejoicing in his achievement, but recognizi…"

"I venture to predict that, when we get around to reviewing their records, we will find that the rebels were almost all—all, perhaps—men who had never been outstandingly successful at anything. Their o…"

"Steve Jobs set Carly Fiorina up over a decade ago. He used compliments and empty promises to make sure HP never brought to market an iPod competitor and, while it isn't certain that HP would have been…"

"Slow and steady wins the race."

"Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down."

"At the highest level of achievement, classical music has the feel of an intimate conversation between two individuals and a mass celebration of our common humanity."

"A left-wing criticism of MacDonald's career Socialist Review"

"The Pope was so sick he couldn't even come to the window, he was so sick all he could manage is a "BLAAARGH ". But even that "blargh" was anti-gay."

"What we now have is too much focus on short-term revenues and almost no focus on the long-term survival or success of the firm. This is why you don't see anything very innovative out of firms like App…"

"the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics .. the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be…"

"To evaluate the greatness of the late director of the Philippine Library and Museum is utterly impossible. An accomplished musician, the foremost scholar in the land, a collector of the first rank, at…"

"Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they …"