Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.
No matter what schemes you have, if you're not in condition to run, you can't succeed.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
When we introduced 10-and-under tennis - when we shortened the courts and had smaller rackets and low-compression balls for trying to introduce the sport to youth - a lot of people said we weren't going to succeed.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.
The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
