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Quotes About Success

Sadie was nearing the end of the level. "What's the secret to landing high on the flagpole?" "Hold down the run button as long as you can, then crouch down and jump just before you're about to fall," the boy said. Sadie/Mario landed on the top of the flagpole.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I'm not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it's true." "So, what do I do?" she asked. "You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Your cousin Albert told me that, in business, they call this a pivot. But life is filled with them, too. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. You may not ever have a romantic relationship with Sadie, but you two will be friends for the rest of your lives, and that is something of equal or greater value, if you choose to see it that way.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner;
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier;
~ Gabrielle Zevin
in business, they call this a pivot. But life is filled with them, too. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. You may not ever have a romantic relationship with Sadie, but you two will be friends for the rest of your lives, and that is something of equal or greater value, if you choose to see it that way.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Ant shrugged. "What's better than work?" He paused. "What's worse than work?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. You may not ever have a romantic relationship with Sadie, but you two will be friends for the rest of your lives, and that is something of equal or greater value, if you choose to see it that way.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
All of life's in a sports memoir," she says. "You practice hard and you succeed, but eventually your body gives out and it's over.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam fully got what she was trying to do, but he also believed that she would have to do more if she were to make games that people loved, not just games that people admired.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.
~ Gaelic Proverb
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
~ Gahan Wilson
Americans love the story of the immigrant who comes through Ellis Island with no possessions but struggles to success and happiness. It is the story that most defines us, and we tell it to ourselves over and over. But for the real immigrants, each story was different, and the happiness of the ending changed with every telling.
~ Gail Collins
Hammer. Nail. Direct hit.
~ Gail Giles
I was employed by an agency. Hikikomori agency. Parents paid the agency to find ways to get their sons back into the world. For many we were what you call in English "the last resort": the parents had tried pets, Shinto priests, bribes, threats. 'I was a very good rental sister – I had a high success rate. The fact that I dressed as a goth Lolita helped,
~ Gail Jones
I want to have everything. And I don't see why I can't.
~ Gail Sheehy
To be really good at something, you can't be married. I believe that, along with Katharine Hepburn.
~ Gail Sheehy
Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you've achieved.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.
~ Game of Thrones, Season 6
Graph of your relationship follows the graph of your wealth in this total commercial world.
~ Ganga Sagar Pant
I failed in some subject but my friend pass in all,today he is an engineer in microsoft and iam is owner of microsoft. -Bills Gate
~ Gangaji
All my life I've tried to avoid pain, with indifferent success.
~ Gardner Dozois
Business is in itself a power.
~ Garet Garrett