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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. -- Fiona Apple
By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. -- Jane Austen
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. -- Henry L. Stimson
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! -- Milan Kundera
... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it. -- Mike Harding
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity. -- Thomas Merton
On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now," and "Half the people you know are below average." Typical for the Eastern student body. -- Neil S. Plakcy
On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now," and "Half the people you know are below average." Typical for the Eastern student body." -- Neil S. Plakcy
I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality. -- Nikki Sixx
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success. -- Hugh Jackman
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. -- Dean Wareham
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. -- Lucinda Williams
Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve. -- Randy Pausch
I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like. -- Jennifer Warnes
There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it. -- David Walton
I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it. -- Moira Kelly
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge. -- Tim Harford
Some people think success is overnight. I suppose, considering I came from Australia, it has been pretty quick. But I have a background in stand-up and improv, so I've really had to prove myself. -- Rebel Wilson
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base. -- Jack Gleeson
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. -- Matthew Perry
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape. -- Jim Barksdale
If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me. -- Richard Fleeshman
When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles. -- Ludivine Sagnier
Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I want and dance to my own tune, even if sometimes it's like nobody is listening. The trade-off is you stay 'cult' and resign yourself to a very modest level of what most people would call success. -- Withered Hand
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music. -- Phoebe Snow
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success. -- Richard Branson
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'. -- Thomas J. Watson
Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success. -- Tim Hudson
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. -- Walter Kaufmann

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