What Is Success Quotes
..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.
Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.
In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.
I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.
My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.
The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.
When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.
I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.
Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.
The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.
Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.
Success for me is just having a job and have the studio feel confident that I can go out there and make a movie that people will enjoy.
The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.