That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.
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