Famous Quotes

"People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is."

Nate Silver on Success

More quotes about Success

• "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

  Bill Cosby on Success

• "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

  Swami Vivekananda on Success

• "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

  Bruce Lee on Success

• "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

  David Brinkley on Success

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

  Winston Churchill on Success

More quotes by Nate Silver

• "I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation."

• "When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen."

• "When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake."

• "Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge."

• "We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise."