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<keyword id="76451" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Adani">Adani</keyword>'s $21.7 billion coal mine project in <keyword id="6355478" type="COUNTRY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Australia">Australia</keyword> was being targeted by a "foreign funded, highly orchestrated" group which influenced the traditional land owners and legal environmental challenges' to stop it, a new set of emails released by <keyword id="6409883" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="wikileaks">WikiLeaks</keyword> has said. 
 According to news agency, in a series of emails, it has been disclosed that the <keyword id="3774525" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="us-based-sandler-foundation">US-based Sandler Foundation</keyword> funded Australia-based environmentalist group, the Sunrise Project, which offered "Wangan and Jagalingou people" financial support and scholarships if they opposed Adani's mine project and also boasted of its attempts to hide its funding sources from Australian parliament, according to 'The Australian' newspaper today. 
 According to report, the previously secret briefings as part of <keyword id="3043" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hillary-Clinton">Hillary Clinton</keyword>'s campaign chairman <keyword id="1246082" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="John-Podesta">John Podesta</keyword>'s emails, said Sunrise tailored its advice to indigenous communities in northern <keyword id="88075" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Queensland">Queensland</keyword>, and that the "whole <keyword id="948066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Galilee-Basin">Galilee Basin</keyword> fossil fuel industrial complex is in its death throes". 
 It was also disclosed that an associated group, <keyword id="59430" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Human-Rights-Watch">Human Rights Watch</keyword>, offered to help Sunrise Project by keep its tax-exempt charity status because "the mining companies seem to own the Liberals (in Australia) and they play very dirty". 
 Human Rights Watch chief executive <keyword id="3774533" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="ken-roth">Ken Roth</keyword> further disclosed that his group received "charitable status by special parliamentary bill" in the "waning days of the <keyword id="6451308" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Labor">Labor</keyword> government". 
 In an email to <keyword id="3774528" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="sandler-foundation">Sandler Foundation</keyword> last August after a decision against the Adani mine, Sunrise Project director <keyword id="3774534" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="john-hepburn">John Hepburn</keyword>, who is said to be the author of the strategy to block the mine, thanked the <keyword id="142144" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Foundation">Foundation</keyword> for its support and wrote 'without your support none of this would have happened". 
 He wrote that he was going to buy a "few bottles of bubbly" for a celebration with "our colleagues at GetUp!!!!, <keyword id="69355" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Greenpeace">Greenpeace</keyword>, 350.org, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Mackay Conservation Group, Market Forces and the brilliant and tireless Sunrise team". 
 <keyword id="657018" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hepburn">Hepburn</keyword>'s email to the Foundation also mocked the coal industry for the claim "there is some kind of foreign-funded and tightly orchestrated conspiracy to systemically destroy the Australian coal industry". 
 Reacting to the latest disclosure, <keyword id="1057128" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Adani-Australia">Adani Australia</keyword> chief executive <keyword id="2241514" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jeyakumar-Janakaraj">Jeyakumar Janakaraj</keyword> said the leaked emails were "evidence that these are broader well-funded activist campaigns as part of a wider anti-coal campaign that is being financially backed and influenced a long way from workers in Australia and those suffering energy poverty in India". 
 
"The leaks show, however, that the anti-coal campaign is not about the merits of the approval process at all; it's about activists motivated to stop jobs and investment,"he said. 
 The latest disclosure came days after the Queensland development minister <keyword id="2782550" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anthony-Lynham">Anthony Lynham</keyword> announced that the state government had invoked special powers to ensure the controversial <keyword id="110855" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Carmichael">Carmichael</keyword> coal and rail project starts next year. 
 
The project is now in its seventh year of the environmental approval process.

Adani's $21.7 billion coal mine
project in Australia is targeted by a "foreign funded” groups

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>John Legend became one of 15 people - the first black man and the youngest - to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony (EGOT) in competitive categories on Sunday.</li><li>Legend took just 12 years to win all four awards, from his Grammy wins in 2006 to his Emmy win this year for producing "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert."</li><li>Only one other person has reached EGOT status in less time.</li><li>We created a graph to show how long it took every EGOT winner to achieve the status.</li></ul>&#xa0;John Legend became one of 15 people to reach EGOT status on Sunday, meaning he's won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony in competitive categories.Legend was the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/john-legend-becomes-first-black-man-with-egot-emmy-grammy-oscar-tony-2018-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first black man to achieve the honor</a>&#xa0;and the youngest to do so during the Creative Arts Emmys, when he won for producing NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert," which took home the prize for best live variety special.The show's other producers,&#xa0;songwriters Sir Tim Rice and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, also achieved EGOT status.Legend first won Grammys in 2006 for his album "Get Lifted," so it took just 12 years for Legend to claim his EGOT. He won an Oscar in 2015 for best original song for "Glory" from the 2014 film "Selma," and won a Tony in 2017 for producing "Jitney," which won the award for best revival of a play.&#xa0;Only one other person, songwriter Robert Lopez, has reached EGOT status in less time than Legend. The person who took the longest time, actress Helen Hayes, took 45 years. Actress Audrey Hepburn saw the longest wait between awards, from when she won both an Oscar and Tony in 1954 to when she won an Emmy in 1993. She finally completed the EGOT with a Grammy win the following year in 1994.The graph below shows how long it took every EGOT winner to achieve the status, from when they won the first of the four awards to when they won the last.&#xa0;<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-actors-fake-fight-movies-2018-8">How actors fake fight in movies</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

This chart shows how long it took all 15 EGOT winners to get their awards, and John Legend was one of the fastest

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Paramount PicturesAudrey Hepburn became the fifth person to achieve EGOT status, and the first to complete it posthumously.</div></div></div>The biggest honor in entertainment isn't TV's Emmy, or Broadway's Tony, music's Grammy, or even film's Oscar. It's all four together: the EGOT.That grand combination of Hollywood's greatest performance prizes is called the EGOT as an acronym representing all four of the above awards. It's a rare and amazing feat. Arguably, it's the only actual measurement of an all-around performer. It's also referred to as "the Grand Slam" of American entertainment.It's also a milestone that could be reached again this year by Lin-Manuel Miranda if he wins for his Oscar-nominated "Moana" song. The "Hamilton" creator would be the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/lin-manuel-miranda-egot-youngest-person-to-win-2017-1">youngest person ever to get the EGOT</a>.The feat is so difficult to achieve that only 12 people are on the list of EGOT winners, including Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Mike Nichols, and Rita Moreno.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">JP Yim/Getty ImagesWhoopi Goldberg became the 10th person to reach EGOT status, the first winner to win two of their awards in the same year, and the first black winner, in 2002.</div></div></div>About five others may also claim to be unofficial EGOT winners, because one or more of their wins were honorary awards rather than given in a competition against others. Those five are Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Alan Menken, and Harry Belafonte.According to <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/02/the-oscars-wher" target="_blank">Vanity Fair</a>, "Miami Vice" actor Philip Michael Thomas coined "EGOT" and popularized it by wearing a gold medallion around his neck with the acronym emblazoned onto the medallion in the mid-'80s."Hopefully in the next five years, I will win all of those awards," an overconfident Thomas reportedly told an interviewer in 1984.That's as close as Thomas would ever get to the phrase, as he hasn't won even one of the awards represented on his medallion. But thanks for naming the achievement, Philip! He isn't alone is having EGOT ambition, of course. Currently, there are about 70 performers who are or had been (in the case of the deceased) one award away from achieving EGOT status, including Julie Andrews, Cher, Kate Winslet, Al Pacino, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, and Lily Tomlin.Here's a list of current EGOT winners <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Academy,_Emmy,_Grammy,_and_Tony_Awards#Qualifying_awards_summary_.28competitive_only.29" target="_blank">from Wikipedia</a>:<ul><li>Richard Rodgers</li><li>Helen Hayes</li><li>Rita Moreno</li><li>John Gielgud</li><li>Audrey Hepburn</li><li>Marvin Hamlisch</li><li>Jonathan Tunick</li><li>Mel Brooks</li><li>Mike Nichols</li><li>Whoopi Goldberg</li><li>Scott Rudin</li><li>Robert Lopez</li></ul>And EGOT winners including non-competitive or special awards:<ul><li>Barbra Streisand</li><li>Liza Minnelli</li><li>James Earl Jones</li><li>Alan Menken</li><li>Harry Belafonte</li></ul> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-moms-with-lookalike-daughters-2016-4">18 Hollywood moms whose lookalike daughters are following in their footsteps</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="tmMzAwMDE6XSCqYi1C3ZfVsEkdEbeNZI" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

What's an EGOT? The most coveted achievement in Hollywood, explained

Artist Cheyenne Randall, a 36-year-old artist living in Seattle, is taking images of iconic figures and photoshopping tattoos all over their bodies.
"I started out by drawing tattoos on certain personalities in magazines and wanted to step it up," he explained on the <a href="http://www.today.com/entertainment/artist-adds-tattoos-transform-popular-celebrity-images-2D12178981" target="_blank">"Today Show"</a> this morning. "I taught myself Photoshop and thus began a slight obsession with seeing what some of my favorite iconic personalities would look like perhaps if they were in a parallel universe or took another path in life."
But each tattoo he places on a famous face has special meaning, says Randall, who adds that, "It's a lot of fun piecing together and sometimes telling a story with the use of different isolated tattoos."
Randall displays his images on his <a href="http://shoppedtattoos.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr page</a> and his <a href="http://instagram.com/indiangiver" target="_blank">popular Instagram account</a>, which has over 11,000 followers. He has over 2,500 images to date, all inspired by his Native American ancestry.
Take a look at some of the most stunning images below.
Prince William, Kate Middleton, and baby George in "Hipster Royalty Redo":

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in "Have a good week everyone ? ":
#fbf with Muhammad Ali:

Linda Carter as Wonder Woman:

Albert Einstein:
 
Elizabeth Taylor:

Marilyn Monroe:

"In a parallel universe" with Jackie and JFK:
Spock:

Barbra Streisand:
 
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano:

Audrey Hepburn:
 
Patrick Swayze:

John Lennon:
 
Princess Diana:

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate":
 
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in "Step Brothers":
Janet Leigh in "Psycho": 
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia:

Stunning Images Of Iconic Figures Covered In Tattoos

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"Aloha."</div></div></div><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"Aloha."</div></div></div>Hollywood has a long history of casting white actors in roles that should be played by Asian actors, leaving them with fewer and fewer parts. Unfortunately, this "whitewashing" is still prevalent today. For instance, blockbuster hit "The Martian" was slammed for casting white actors in roles played by Asian characters in Andy Weir's novel. In 2015, Emma Stone was cast to play a woman who is one quarter Chinese and one quarter Hawaiian in "Aloha." This year, the controversy was fueled when photos of Scarlett Johansson playing a Japanese character in "Ghost in the Shell" emerged.Michelle Villemaire, best known for her DIY blog called <a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/">Home Made Mimi</a>, became frustrated with the issue at hand, and found a way to draw attention to it with a new project called "Correcting Yellowface.""Growing up, I didn't see many faces like mine on television and film. And because I wanted to be an actor, it was really hard to believe that I could ever be one. Only women who had a certain skin color and eye shape were really allowed on screen, right? To this day, white people are cast as Asians, deepening the message that Asians just aren't wanted," <a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">she wrote</a>.So she decided to correct the past, and began inserting images of herself into some of Hollywood's most egregious cases of whitewashing.In 1944's "Dragon Seed" Katherine Hepburn played a Chinese woman standing up to the Japanese in World War II.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"Dragon Seed."</div></div></div>The blue-eyed Myrna Loy played a Chinese woman in 1932's "The Mask of Fu Manchu."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"The Mask of Fu Manchu."</div></div></div>Emma Stone played Allison Ng, who is of Chinese and Hawaiian descent, in Cameron Crowe's "Aloha."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"Aloha."</div></div></div><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"Aloha."</div></div></div>And finally, this is Villemaire as Scarlett Johansson, who plays a Japanese character in the upcoming live action remake of "Ghost in the Shell," which will be out in 2017.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Michelle Villemaire/Home Made Mimi</a>"Ghost in the Shell."</div></div></div>Villemaire's project is similar to the recent <a href="http://starringjohncho.com/">#StarringJohnCho</a>, in which an artist inserted actor John Cho into movie posters to show the lack of Asian-American roles in Hollywood. With recent outrage over the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jalaluddin-al-rumi-biopic-leonardio-dicaprio-2016-6">being considered to play a Muslim poet</a>, projects like this are more relevant than ever.Check out more about "Correcting Yellowface" over on <a href="http://www.homemademimi.com/get-picture-adventures-correcting-yellowface/">Villemaire's website</a>. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-oblique-side-pen-calligraphy-2016-5">True calligraphy masters use this crazy-looking side pen to make beautiful letters</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="hrZGNxMzE6rjuXzPqZ3A3odrCOXapNdf" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

A mom is challenging Hollywood whitewashing with a provocative new art project

101 Inspirational Quotes From Super Successful People

<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Alex Wong / Gett Images / Business Insider" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/541c5f5a6bb3f7430779747d-960/michelle-17.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/first-lady-michelle-obama-speaks-during-day-one-of-the-news-photo/151278871">Alex Wong / Gett Images / Business Insider</a></div></div>Success can be <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-9-incredibly-successful-people-define-success-2014-5?op=1">defined</a> - and achieved - a million different ways, and there are endless perspectives on how to do both.
Some of the world's most accomplished people have spoken out about their own journeys toward success, their thoughts on how to attain it, and their feelings on finally reaching it.
Here are 88 quotes on success, from the world's most successful people:
1) "Eighty percent of success is showing up." -Woody Allen
2) "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." -Steve Jobs
3) "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." -Maya Angelou
4) "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." -Bill Gates
5) "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." -Barack Obama
6) "Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live." -Anne Sweeney
7) "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -Martin Luther King Jr.
8) "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it." -Elon Musk
<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="REUTERS/Brendan McDermid" title_caption="Elon Musk." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/541c6506ecad042f64662e0f-960/elon-musktesla-3.jpg"></a>REUTERS/Brendan McDermidElon Musk.</div></div>9) "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." -Warren Buffett
10) "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." -Mary Kay Ash
11) "I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down." -Abraham Lincoln
12) "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." -Alexander Graham Bell
13) "Life is too short to dwell on what might have been." -Hillary Clinton
14) "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." -Tony Hsieh
15) "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." ?Martin Luther King Jr.
16) "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." -Colin Powell
17) "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -Franklin D. Roosevelt 
18) "I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking." -Joan Rivers
19) "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." -Will Smith
20) "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
21) "The best revenge is massive success." -Frank Sinatra
22) "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
23) "If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped." -Melinda Gates
<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Getty Images" title_caption="Melinda Gates." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/541c4fd06bb3f7b942f1a555-960/melinda-gates-9.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/philanthropist-melinda-gates-looks-on-during-the-annual-news-photo/104334440">Getty Images</a>Melinda Gates.</div></div>24) "Success is falling nine times and getting up 10." -Jon Bon Jovi
25) "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1." -Warren Buffett
26) "Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." -Michelle Obama
27) "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." -Truman Capote
28) "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller
29) "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." -Vince Lombardi
30) "I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds." -Ellen DeGeneres
31) "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." -Napoleon Bonaparte
32) "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." -Michael Dell
33) "Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do." -Nelson Mandela
34) "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." -Audrey Hepburn
35) "Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone." -Deepak Chopra
36) "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney
37) "Failure is success if we learn from it." -Malcolm Forbes
38) "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." -Steve Jobs 
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Getty Images" title_caption="Steve Jobs." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/541c4f52eab8ea34569d98c3-960/steve-jobs-104.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-delivers-the-keynote-address-at-the-news-photo/115285736">Getty Images</a>Steve Jobs.</div></div></div>39) "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." -Coco Chanel
40) "Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again." -Richard Branson
41) "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." ?Dalai Lama XIV
42) "As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future." -Indra Nooyi
43) "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." -Napoleon Hill
44) "The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." -Oprah Winfrey
45) "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." -Bruce Lee
46) "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." -John F. Kennedy
47) "Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." -Diane Sawyer
48) "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky
49) "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." -Abraham Lincoln
50) "Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." -Nelson Mandela
51) "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." -Henry Ford
52) "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." -Billie Jean King
53) "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." -Colin Powell
54) "Success is a great deodorant." -Elizabeth Taylor
55) "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
56) "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." -J.K. Rowling
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla " title_caption="J.K. Rowling." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/541c5cfd6da811361dc495a1-960/jk-rowling-reading-harry-potter-at-white-house-12.jpg"></a>Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla J.K. Rowling.</div></div></div>57) "Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." -Napoleon Hill
58) "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." -Margaret Thatcher
59) "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." ?Robert F. Kennedy
60) "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson
61) "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." -Bill Cosby
62) "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." -Frank Lloyd Wright
63) "If you have no critics, you'll likely have no success." -Malcolm X
64) "Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination." -Michael Phelps
65) "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." ?Oprah Winfrey
66) "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." -Donald Trump
67) "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." -Theodore Roosevelt
68) "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." -George Bernard Shaw
69) "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." -Arianna Huffington
70) "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -Albert Einstein
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Wikimedia commons" title_caption="Albert Einstein." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/541c5ccdecad042148662e0a-960/albert-einstein-39.jpg"></a>Wikimedia commonsAlbert Einstein.</div></div></div>71) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
72) "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." -Barack Obama
73) "I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough." -Marissa Mayer
74) "The starting point of all achievement is desire." -Napoleon Hill
75) "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -David Brinkley
76) "It always seems impossible until it's done." -Nelson Mandela
77) "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going" -Beverly Sills
78) "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein
79) "We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind." -Martin Luther King Jr.
80) "Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive." -Donald Trump
81) "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." -Napoleon Hill
82) "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own." -Michelle Obama
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88 Quotes On Success From The World's Most Accomplished People

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>Paul Haggis was twenty-one years old in 1975.He was walking toward a record store in downtown London when he encountered a fast-talking, long-haired young man with piercing eyes standing on the corner of Dundas and Waterloo Streets. There was something keen and strangely adamant in his manner.His name was Jim Logan. He pressed a book into Haggis's hands. "You have a mind," Logan said. "This is the owner's manual." Then he demanded, "Give me two dollars."The book was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard, which was published in 1950. By the time Logan pushed it on Haggis, the book had sold more than two million copies throughout the world. Haggis opened the book and saw a page stamped with the words "Church of Scientology.""Take me there," he said to Logan.At the time, there were only a handful of Scientologists in the entire province of Ontario. By coincidence, Haggis had heard about the organization a couple of months earlier, from a friend who had called it a cult. That interested Haggis; he considered the possibility of doing a documentary ?lm about it.When he arrived at the church's quarters in London, it certainly didn't look like a cult-two young men occupying a hole-in-the-wall office above Woolworth's ?ve-and-dime.As an atheist, Haggis was wary of being dragged into a formal belief system. In response to his skepticism, Logan showed him a passage by Hubbard that read: "What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data on you and command you to believe it or else."If it is not true for you, it isn't true. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest. There is nothing unhappier than one who tries to live in a chaos of lies." These words resonated with Haggis.Although he didn't realize it, Haggis was being drawn into the church through a classic, four-step "dissemination drill" that recruiters are carefully trained to follow. The first step is to make contact, as Jim Logan did with Haggis in 1975.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>The second step is to disarm any antagonism the individual may display toward Scientology. Once that's done, the task is to "find the ruin"-that is, the problem most on the mind of the potential recruit. For Paul, it was a turbulent romance.The fourth step is to convince the subject that Scientology has the answer. "Once the person is aware of the ruin, you bring about an understanding that Scientology can handle the condition," Hubbard writes. "It's at the right moment on this step that one . . . directs him to the service that will best handle what he needs handled." At that point, the potential recruit has officially been transformed into a Scientologist.Paul responded to every step in an almost ideal manner. He and his girlfriend took a course together and, shortly thereafter, became Hubbard Qualified Scientologists, one of the first levels in what the church calls the Bridge to Total Freedom.Haggis was born in 1953, the oldest of three children. His father, Ted, ran a construction company specializing in roadwork-mostly laying asphalt and pouring sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. He called his company Global, because he was serving both London and Paris- another Ontario community fifty miles to the east.As Ted was getting his business started, the family lived in a small house in the predominantly white town. The Haggises were one of the few Catholic families in a Protestant neighborhood, which led to occasional confrontations, including a schoolyard fistfight that left Paul with a broken nose.Although he didn't really think of himself as religious, he identified with being a minority; however, his mother, Mary, insisted on sending Paul and his two younger sisters, Kathy and Jo, to Mass every Sunday. One day, she spotted their priest driving an expensive car.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>"God wants me to have a Cadillac," the priest explained. Mary responded, "Then God doesn't want us in your church anymore." Paul admired his mother's stand; he knew how much her religion meant to her. After that, the family stopped going to Mass, but the children continued in Catholic schools.Ted's construction business prospered to the point that he was able to buy a much larger house on eighteen acres of rolling land outside of town. There were a couple of horses in the stable, a Chrysler station wagon in the garage, and giant construction vehicles parked in the yard, like grazing dinosaurs.Paul spent a lot of time alone. He could walk the mile to catch the school bus and not see anyone along the way. His chores were to clean the horse stalls and the dog runs (Ted raised spaniels for ?eld trials). At home, Paul made himself the center of attention-"the apple of his mother's eye," his father recalled-but he was mischievous and full of pranks. "He got the strap when he was five years old," Ted said.When Paul was about thirteen, he was taken to say farewell to his grandfather on his deathbed. The old man had been a janitor in a bowling alley, having fled England because of some mysterious scandal.He seemed to recognize a similar dangerous quality in Paul. His parting words to him were, "I've wasted my life. Don't waste yours."<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>In high school, Paul began steering toward trouble. His worried parents sent him to Ridley College, a boarding school in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls, where he was required to be a part of the cadet corps of the Royal Canadian Army. He despised marching or any regulated behavior, and soon began skipping the compulsory drills.He would sit in his room reading Ramparts, the radical magazine that chronicled the social revolutions then unfolding in America, where he longed to be. He was constantly getting punished for his infractions, until he taught himself to pick locks; then he could sneak into the prefect's office and mark off his demerits. The experience sharpened an incipient talent for subversion.After a year of this, his parents transferred him to a progressive boys' school, called Muskoka Lakes College, in northern Ontario, where there was very little system to subvert. Although it was called a college, it was basically a preparatory school. Students were encouraged to study whatever they wanted. Paul discovered a mentor in his art teacher, Max Allen, who was gay and politically radical. Allen produced a show for the Canadian Broadcasting Company called As It Happens.In 1973, while the Watergate hearings were going on in Washington, DC, Allen let Paul sit beside him in his cubicle at CBC while he edited John Dean's testimony for broadcast. Later, Allen opened a small theater in Toronto to show movies that had been banned under Ontario's draconian censorship laws, and Paul volunteered at the box office. They showed Ken Russell's The Devils and Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. In Ted's mind, his son was working in a porno theater. "I just shut my eyes," Ted said.Paul left school after he was caught forging a check. He attended art school brie?y, and took some ?lm classes at a community college, but he dropped out of that as well. He grew his curly blond hair to his shoulders. He began working in construction full-time for Ted, but he was drifting toward a precipice. In the 1970s, London acquired the nickname "Speed City," because of the methamphetamine labs that sprang up to serve its blossoming underworld. Hard drugs were easy to obtain. Two of Haggis's friends died from overdoses, and he had a gun pointed in his face a couple of times. "I was a bad kid," he admitted. "I didn't kill anybody. Not that I didn't try."He also acted as a stage manager in the ninety-nine-seat theater his father created in an abandoned church for one of his stagestruck daughters. On Saturday nights, Paul would strike the set of whatever show was under way and put up a movie screen. In that way he introduced himself and the small community of ?lm buffs in London to the works of Bergman, Hitchcock, and the French New Wave.<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>He was so affected by Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow- Up that in 1974 he decided to become a fashion photographer in England, like the hero of that movie. That lasted less than a year, but when he returned he still carried a Leica over his shoulder.Back in London, Ontario, he fell in love with a nursing student named Diane Gettas. They began sharing a one-bedroom apartment filled with Paul's books on ?lm.He thought of himself then as "a loner and an artist and an iconoclast." His grades were too poor to get into college. He could see that he was going nowhere. He was ready to change, but he wasn't sure how.Such was Paul Haggis's state of mind when he joined the Church of Scientology.Like every scientologist, when Haggis entered the church, he took his first steps into the mind of L. Ron Hubbard. He read about Hubbard's adventurous life: how he wandered the world, led dangerous expeditions, and healed himself of crippling war injuries through the techniques that he developed into Dianetics. He was not a prophet, like Mohammed, or divine, like Jesus. He had not been visited by an angel bearing tablets of revelation, like Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. Scientologists believe that Hubbard discovered the existential truths that form their doctrine through extensive research-in that way, it is "science."The apparent rationalism appealed to Haggis. He had long since walked away from the religion of his upbringing, but he was still looking for a way to express his idealism. It was important to him that Scientology didn't demand belief in a god. But the figure of L. Ron Hubbard did hover over the religion in suggestive ways. He wasn't worshipped, exactly, but his visage and name were everywhere, like the absolute ruler of a small kingdom.There seemed to be two Hubbards within the church: the godlike authority whose every word was regarded as scripture, and the avuncular figure that Haggis saw on the training videos, who came across as wry and self-deprecating. Those were qualities that Haggis shared to a marked degree, and they inspired trust in the man he had come to accept as his spiritual guide.<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>Still, Haggis felt a little stranded by the lack of irony among his fellow Scientologists. Their inability to laugh at themselves seemed at odds with the character of Hubbard himself. He didn't seem self-important or pious; he was like the dashing, wisecracking hero of a B movie who had seen everything and somehow had it all figured out. When Haggis experienced doubts about the religion, he reflected on the 16 mm films of Hubbard's lectures from the 1950s and 1960s, which were part of the church's indoctrination process. Hubbard was always chuckling to himself, marveling over some random observation that had just occurred to him, with a little wink to the audience suggesting that they not take him too seriously.He would just open his mouth and a mob of new thoughts would burst forth, elbowing each other in the race to make themselves known to the world. They were often trivial and disjointed but also full of obscure, learned references and charged with a sense of originality and purpose. "You walked in one day and you said, 'I'm a seneschal,' " Hubbard observed in a characteristic aside:"And this knight with eight-inch spurs, standing there-humph- and say, 'I'm supposed to open the doors to this castle, I've been doing this for a long time, and I'm a very trusted retainer'. . . He's insisting he's the seneschal but nobody will pay him his wages, and so forth. . . . He was somebody before he became the seneschal.Now, as a seneschal, he became nobody-until he finally went out and got a begging pan on the highway and began to hold it out for fish and chips as people came along, you know. . . . Now he says, 'I am something, I am a beggar,' but that's still something. Then the New York state police come along, or somebody, and they say to him-I'm a little mixed up in my periods here, but they say to him-'Do you realize you cannot beg upon the public road without license Number 603-F?' . . . So he starves to death and kicks the bucket and there he lies. . . . Now he's somebody, he's a corpse, but he's not dead, he's merely a corpse. . . . Got the idea? But he goes through sequences of becoming nobody, somebody, nobody, somebody, nobody, somebody, nobody, not necessarily on a dwindling spiral.Some people get up to the point of being a happy man. You know the old story of a happy man-I won't tell it-he didn't have a shirt. . . ."Just as this fuzzy parable begins to ramble into incoherence, Hubbard comes to the point, which is that a being is not his occupation or even the body he presently inhabits. The central insight of Scientology is that the being is eternal, what Hubbard terms a "thetan." "This chap, in other words, was somebody until he began to identify his beingness with a thing. . . . None of these beingnesses are the person. The person is the thetan."<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>"He had this amazing buoyancy," Haggis recalled. "He had a deadpan sense of humor and this sense of himself that seemed to say, 'Yes, I am fully aware that I might be mad, but I also might be on to something.' "The zealotry that empowered so many members of the church came from the belief that they were the vanguard of the struggle to save humanity. "A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology," Hubbard writes. Those breathless aims drew young idealists, like Haggis, to the church's banner.To advance such lofty goals, Hubbard developed a "technology" to attain spiritual freedom and discover oneself as an immortal being. "Scientology works 100 percent of the time when it is properly applied to a person who sincerely desires to improve his life," a church publication declares. This guarantee rests on the assumption that through rigorous research, Hubbard had uncovered a perfect understanding of human nature. One must not stray from the path he has laid down or question his methods.Scientology is exact. Scientology is certain. Step by step one can ascend toward clarity and power, becoming more oneself-but, paradoxically, also more like Hubbard. Scientology is the geography of his mind. Perhaps no individual in history has taken such copious internal soundings and described with so much logic and minute detail the inner workings of his own mentality.The method Hubbard put forward created a road map toward his own ideal self. Hubbard's habits, his imagination, his goals and wishes-his character, in other words-became both the basis and the destination of Scientology.<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>Secretly, Haggis didn't really respect Hubbard as a writer. He hadn't been able to get through Dianetics, for instance. He read about thirty pages, then put it down. Much of the Scientology coursework, however, gave him a feeling of accomplishment. In 1976, he traveled to Los Angeles, the center of the Scientology universe, checking in at the old Château Élysée, on Franklin Avenue.Clark Gable and Katharine Hepburn had once stayed there, along with many other stars, but when Haggis arrived it was a run-down church retreat called the Manor Hotel. (It has since been spectacularly renovated and turned into Scientology's premier Celebrity Centre.) He had a little apartment with a kitchen where he could write.There were about 30,000 Scientologists in America at the time. Most of them were white, urban, and middle class; they were predominantly in their twenties, and many of them, especially in Los Angeles, were involved in graphic or performing arts. In other words, they were a lot like Paul Haggis.He immediately became a part of a community in a city that can otherwise be quite isolating. For the first time in his life, he experienced a feeling of kinship and camaraderie with people who had a lot in common-"all these atheists looking for something to believe in, and all these wanderers looking for a club to join."In 1977, Haggis returned to Canada to continue working for his father, who could see that his son was struggling. Ted Haggis asked him what he wanted to do with his life. Haggis said he wanted to be a writer. His father said, "Well, there are only two places to do that, New York and Los Angeles. Pick one, and I'll keep you on the payroll for a year." Paul chose LA because it was the heart of the ? lm world.Soon after this conversation with his father, Haggis and Diane Gettas got married. Two months later, they loaded up his brown Ranchero and drove to Los Angeles, moving into an apartment with Diane's brother, Gregg, and three other people. Paul got a job moving furniture. On the weekends he took photographs for yearbooks. At night he wrote scripts on spec at a secondhand drafting table. The following year, Diane gave birth to their first child, Alissa. Excerpted from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307745309/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307745309&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thebusiinsi-20&amp;linkId=THW4VIR5KGK2QVWP">Going Clear</a> by Lawrence Wright. Copyright © 2013 by Lawrence Wright. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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