“What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.”

— Emmitt Smith

Scott Pitoniak (June 3, 2007) "Smith's feet flashing to a new beat", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, p. 1D, 7D.

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American football player and sports broadcaster 1969

Mozi (-470–-391 BC) Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period

Book 1; On the necessity of standards
Mozi

“I tell god that he has been responsible enough. Without him it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks to him I could achieve these heights.”

S. H. Raza (1922–2016) Indian artist

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“Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

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“Every wall that I run in to is what I have yet to understand about myself and this life, and there is no other wall, none.”

Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician

Secrets of Being Unstoppable

“I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.”

José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

Interview with "O Globo", July 2009.

“I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

18; (9 November 1917) a slight variant of this was published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946): If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship... My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life - it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.”

Edvard Munch (1863–1944) Norwegian painter and printmaker

As quoted in 'From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity', Potter P. Emerg Infect Dis, 2011
after 1930

“I believe aliens have definitely been here. I don’t think the theory that they have affected, interacted with, exchanged with the people of Earth (human and otherwise) in the past takes away from the accomplishments or innovations of anyone. I think the general belief that certain peoples are less than other peoples is what does that…”

Nnedi Okorafor (1974) Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction

On her belief about extraterrestrial life in “Interview: Nnedi Okorafor” http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nnedi-okorafor/ in Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy (Mar 2017)
Personal life

“I simply can’t make myself believe that if they’d been handicapped by belief in capricious supernatural beings they’d have achieved what they did.”

John Brunner book Total Eclipse

Source: Total Eclipse (1974), Chapter 14 (p. 116)

“What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.”

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