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Quotes About Success

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~ Jacob Bronowski
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
~ Richard Feynman
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
~ Terry Pratchett
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
~ Albert Einstein
Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.
~ Lil Wayne
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
~ Francis Quarles
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
~ Carl Sagan
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.
~ Richard Branson
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).
~ Karl Marx
To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.
~ Leo Errera
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.
~ Kenneth Appel
The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.
~ Vannoccio Biringuccio
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
~ Alfred Nobel
Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.
~ Reginald Fessenden
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
~ Orson Scott Card
When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.
~ Donny Deutsch
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
~ Frederick Lenz
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
~ George Iles
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
~ Jack Welch