Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Sampras

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

Pete Sampras

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Pearl Cleage

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

Phoebe Snow

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

Phyllis McGinley

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Rabindranath Tagore

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

Rabindranath Tagore

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Puff Daddy

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

Puff Daddy

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

Puff Daddy

I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.

Joseph Kosinski

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Joss Whedon

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Koichi Tanaka

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Kobe Bryant

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Kofi Annan

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

Kevin Kline

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Kevin J. Anderson

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Kevin Hart

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

Kevin Hart

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

Kevin Hart

I am in control of my career, and that's what so many actors don't take advantage of. You get to these successful points, and you continue to just work for other people. But, when you're your own brand and you're your own boss, the whole line of work changes. That's my biggest turn on.

Kenneth Branagh

My definition of success is control.

Kelly Rowan

Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way… where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.

Kelly Macdonald

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Kathleen Winsor

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Kathleen Winsor

success is often harder to take than failure ...

Mother Teresa

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

Mike Krzyzewski

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Pedro Almodovar

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Radcliffe

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.