Quote by Damien Hirst
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your ow

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. – Damien Hirst

Other quotes by Damien Hirst

Ive been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. Its great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and its all fixed so its a scary thing. – Damien Hirst

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Future
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I was taught to confront things you cant avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where youre trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers dont last for ever makes them beautiful. – Damien Hirst

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Death
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Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I dont think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. – Damien Hirst

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Experience
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[Y]ou can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. – Napoleon Hill (1883–1970)

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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. – Dale Carnegie

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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. Thats really the measure of success for the United States. – Leon Panetta

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When everything happens to you when youre so young, youre very lucky, but by the same token, youre never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same. – Lauren Bacall

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I can tell you one thing. Ive done this my way. I dont have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it. – John Daly

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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Ive never let my school interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

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I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes Ill pull that 80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings. – Katy Perry

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