In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
In war, only the simple succeeds.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.
Nothing succeeds like address.
The stronger always succeeds.
If the art is concealed, it succeeds.
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Where there's liberty, art succeeds.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
Beauty comes when fashion succeeds
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.