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Today's Anniversary - 23rd May

Births

• 1951 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1921 - James Blish
• 1926 - Joe Slovo
• 1799 - Thomas Hood
• 1958 - Mitch Albom

Deaths

• 1965 - David Smith
• 1992 - Giovanni Falcone
• 1995 - Owen Hart
• 1937 - John D. Rockefeller
• 2002 - Sam Snead

• Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Time

• You know, many of you kids can’t relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We’re looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn’t happen.

  Dave Winfield

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Happen

• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Doolin Henderson

  Topics in Success

• My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan’s Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

  Peter Straub

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Enjoyment

• Sometimes I wonder if I would’ve been more successful if I wasn’t acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

  Danny Masterson

  Topics in Love, Success, Work

• So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses.

  Danny Elfman

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Game

• I always think, when there’s stuff that people don’t like, I always say that if I have another success, I’ll enjoy it more, but you don’t really.

  Danny Boyle

  Topics in Success

  Tags in People, Think, Like

• The problem with being British… I don’t know if it’s me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

  Danny Boyle

  Topics in Success

• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn’t enough. I was exploding inside.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Suddenly, Enough, Unhappy

• I’m spoiled – in all ways. I’ve been in a rock ‘n’ roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

  Peter Noone

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Time

• I don’t talk about success. I don’t know what it is. Wait until I’m dead.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Until, Dead

• It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

  Peter Marshall

  Topics in Success
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  A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.

  David Brinkley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Foundation, Thrown

• I would like to say I’ve achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You’re not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Person

• It’s a journey, it’s a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program… So far this has been a very successful rehab.

  Peter Hobson

  Topics in Effort, Success

• I think it’s more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  Daniel Constantine Marino Jr

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Time, Think

• It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.

  Peter Hammill

  Topics in Success

  Tags in People, Audience

• So it’s joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  Ian McKellen

  Topics in Experience, Success

  Tags in Popular, Joyful, Absolutely

• I’m not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Topics in Success, Work

  Tags in Deserve

• I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

  Peter Garrett

  Topics in Nature, Success