The second and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic a scholar a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

When everything happens to you when you're so young you're very lucky but by the same token you're 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.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first being in the right place at the right time and second doing something about it.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

My opinion my conviction gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me being from Florida.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.