Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Olivia Newton-John

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Olivia Wilde

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

Marcus Giles

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

Kevin Shelley

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

Rio Ferdinand

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season

Sam Mendes

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Josie Maran

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

Venus Williams

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Brett Somers

I don't know a high C from a low C.

Bat for Lashes

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Bette Midler

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Denis Johnson

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.

William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.