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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. |
| in Failure Quotes by Herbert Bayard Swope |
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.- Chet Atkins
The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that is a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
