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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

Nikola Tesla

Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded.

Walter Lippmann

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

Carl Levin

Every mistake you make is only increasing your odds of succeeding.

Nick Laporta

In high school I did well academically and athletically, ... I never thought about not succeeding. Thankfully I have the God-given ability to do it.

Jeff Mullins

This is a turbo-charged moment. If we don't pick it up, there's a real risk of not succeeding here.

Frederick Barton

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I'm impressed with the skill it takes to reproduce these results. It's great to see someone in meteorology succeeding.

Brian Olsen

When our programs began succeeding, that's when he began complaining about us. I really do think it's a business competitive and a sibling competitive issue.

Jim Riley

A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations.

Janice Argabright

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Blockbuster is succeeding, ... But the market is plenty big for both of us.

Reed Hastings

We believe that the significant publicity surrounding our initial public offering in April carried over into the succeeding months and contributed to this higher than expected growth.

Scott Livengood

In my opinion, Aberdeen would give the team the strongest chance of succeeding.

Andy Irvine

I call it the second part of his career. He took some time off, got married. Now he's a man. He doesn't have to worry about succeeding for anybody but himself. Nobody has more heart than this boy.

Randy Mitchem

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

Iyad Allawi

There's this naive belief in our soccer that everything is going to be solved by naming a new coach. These plans are based on the idea that if we get the system right then the new man has a better chance of succeeding.

Trevor Phillips

It could play to the image of a president who is overreaching and not succeeding -- going to war without a clear purpose or credible proof in retrospect, isolating America, wiretapping.

Doug Schoen

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Mack R. Douglas

By the end of '06 we're going to have a pretty clear picture of whether or not it's succeeding or failing, ... And success will be dependent upon a government that's representative and a capacity to govern in terms of security.

Joe Biden

There was no quit in Justin. The tenacity could well be interpreted as stubbornness. He was doing what he wanted and you know, hat's off to him because it seems he was succeeding in it.

Steve Schwartz

Operationally, this company is succeeding in a very difficult environment.

Scott Benesch

I think that collectively the stock is moving in the right direction. That's the most confidence building you can have, ... And we're making progress we're succeeding in bite size pieces and hopefully collectively we'll move to more synergistic growth and you know we've got a good plan we have a focus and we're happy about it.

Paul Fireman

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Andrea Jung

I'm hoping and expecting the president will stay on track as he has been in the past five years because it's succeeding now better than it ever has before. Why in heaven's name would you reverse course?

Wendy Long

For one thing, Democrats can explain that resolutions of censure have typically been reserved for ethics violations, not for meretricious statements - thereby perhaps succeeding in confusing the debate and wriggling off the hook.

Bill Kristol

We just have to bring the programming. I don't see any deterrents to this succeeding.

Jim Gilliam

For me it has always been about playing and succeeding as a team. The individual awards are secondary.

Luke Zeller

For us, it's a big deal. We just doubled our probability of succeeding.

Phil Christensen

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

Clarence B. Kelland

What would get Bill Gates animated? ... There's a lot of money at stake. He's going to get excited over things that actually have very little chance of succeeding.

Kevin Murphy

There's a lot to maintaining consistency in the NFL, and it's both on and off the field, ... And if something gets in your way of your concentration on football, I don't care what it is, your chance of succeeding is difficult because there's people right behind you focused on taking your spot.

Ted Sundquist

You're playing must-win situations with the pressure of succeeding, and there is no tomorrow.

Brian Graham

We've been playing better with each succeeding game, but this game was a bit of a setback. I'm going to have a conversation with them about how we crossed less than 50 percent of our average, how we weren't working the alleys and how we weren't going really aggressive to the ball. If you don't do those things, then the result is inevitable. You are going to lose.

Larry Slason

You learn discipline, about preparation, teamwork and succeeding.

Lisa Fernandez

We jokingly fight with each other. We're very competitive in a lot of stuff that we do. It doesn't bother me. As long as he's succeeding, I'm happy.

Jay Quick

We do have average students in AP classes right now that are succeeding. They know it's more of a challenge, and they tend to strive and work a little bit harder in that class than they normally would in a Regents class.

Chris Brewer

The life science industry is doing well in Michigan, one of the few, and it is succeeding without lifting the ban on cloning stem cells or creating and destroying embryos.

Matt Resch

Bill's program is very demanding, very time-consuming, very energy-consuming. If a player has a lot of distractions in his personal life that manifest in their professional life, he is going to have difficulty succeeding in Bill's program.

Scott Pioli

I know it sounds kind of weird, but none of us care about the playing time as much as we do about the whole group succeeding. (Playing time) is something Coach has talked about with us, and we all agreed.

Courtney Whidden

The White House, House and Senate Republicans are ready to negotiate on bipartisan economic growth that creates jobs and helps bring the economy out of a recession. Unfortunately, we've seen several partisan barriers that preclude us from succeeding.

Ron Bonjean

It is worrying that companies are applying for licences that cannot possibly be granted. It will potentially waste time and money by people attending hearings when the applicants have no chance of succeeding.

Eric Roberts

People who have good jobs in supportive workplaces are more committed. They're more loyal, they're more likely to stay with their own jobs, they're more likely to give their all to their jobs, to care about their company succeeding.

Ellen Galinsky

The trick for him is becoming less flamboyant, succeeding at governing, but not losing what makes him special and different from other politicians.

Elizabeth Garrett

His whole goal in life was to never repeat what had happened to him early on. He wanted above all to be a good husband, a great father, an exceptional Marine, and he was succeeding at all of those.

Edward Romero

It's unacceptable that we don't have 70, 80 percent of our kids thinking, preparing themselves and succeeding going off to four-year colleges. That's where we need to be, ... They're called prep schools for a reason, because they prep you for the next stage.

Eddie Perez