Succeeded Quotes

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.