"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" ― Jean Cocteau Topic(s): Success Tags: believe More From Jean Cocteau "The poet doesn’t invent. He listens." "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie." "The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying." More In Success "Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within."― Brad Pitt "Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."― Denis Waitley "The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."― Cyril Connolly