From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... successful.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Or we may encounter the reverse situation, in
which we are highly elated
because we seem to have
been successful.
2.
... successful.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
3.
... successful and
happy business career.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
An exceptional man, he
remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
4.
... successful approach
to that age-old public health ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
5.
... successful business
man, it is Fred.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
6.
... successful, but
I have never been successful ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
With many individuals
the methods which I employed are successful, but
I have never been successful
with an alcoholic of your description."(*)
7.
... successful consummation.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling
of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
8.
... successful flight
at Kitty Hawk.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Even in the present century, American newspapers were afraid to
print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.
9.
... successful groups
emerged -- the first at Akron, ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
10.
... successful, he
cannot fool himself about values.
BB p.64,
How It Works
11.
... successful in
business and had retired, he ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
He made up his mind that until he had been
successful in business and
had retired, he would not touch another drop.
12.
... successful in
his enterprise, he would have ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Had he been successful in his enterprise, he would have been set on his feet financially which, at the time, seemed vitally important.
13.
... successful in
licking my other personal problems, ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and
that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.
14.
... successful in
solving your own domestic problems, ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer's family how that was accomplished.
15.
Successful readjustment
means the opposite.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
16.
... successful than
anybody in the business.'
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
17.
... successful where
you men failed.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and
that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.
18.
... successful with
alcoholics if you do not ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
You will be most successful
with alcoholics if you do not exhibit any passion for crusade or reform.
19.
... successful with
an alcoholic of your description."(*)
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
With many individuals
the methods which I employed are successful, but
I have never been successful
with an alcoholic of your description."(*)
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