The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.
I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who. . . A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India. . . [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
[. . . ] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.
I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages
The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.