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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
‐‐ Scott Adams -
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
‐‐ Agatha Christie -
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart -
Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa -
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
‐‐ Bruce Barton -
Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.
‐‐ George Osborne -
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman -
Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.
‐‐ David Talbot -
Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.
‐‐ Robert Caro -
Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.
‐‐ Josh Trank -
Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab -
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
‐‐ Ron Fournier -
Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.
‐‐ Michael Gurian -
Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.
‐‐ Arne Duncan -
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
‐‐ Serge Haroche -
Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.
‐‐ Terry Wogan -
Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto -
Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
‐‐ Richard Lewis -
Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry -
Most theater tells you what to think.
‐‐ Robert Wilson -
Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).
‐‐ Martin Rees -
Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts' the therapist. The therapist ends up feeling frustrated and resentful, and doing all the work.
‐‐ David D. Burns -
Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better.
‐‐ Tony Fadell -
Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
‐‐ T. J. Miller -
Most things I go through I have to write about.
‐‐ Keri Hilson -
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
‐‐ Tom Petty -
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
‐‐ Tony Benn -
Most things in life come as a surprise.
‐‐ Lykke Li -
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
‐‐ Simon Cowell -
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.
‐‐ Sissy Spacek -
Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland -
Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.
‐‐ Little Milton -
Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
‐‐ Lee Daniels -
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
‐‐ Catherine Keener -
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
‐‐ Gerard Way -
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
‐‐ Alicia Keys -
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
‐‐ Jonathan Stroud -
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
‐‐ Steven Rattner -
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
‐‐ Edward R. Murrow -
Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
‐‐ Rita Rudner -
Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.
‐‐ Alex Graves -
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
‐‐ Matt Groening -
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
‐‐ Bobby Cox -
Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
‐‐ Alex Berenson -
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
‐‐ Claudio Hummes -
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf -
Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.
‐‐ John Vane -
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler -
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
‐‐ Finley Peter Dunne
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