Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ailes

To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.

Robin Wright

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

Robin G. Collingwood

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

Robert Rubin

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.

Robert Redford

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Robert Redford

I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my wrinkles. I thought, you mean this is what it's gonna be about now? I'm not going to be permitted to be human?

Robert Redford

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Robert Collier

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Rob Zombie

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

Richard Dawkins

Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Therefore, Eastern mystics must have been talking about quantum theory all along.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Rita Mae Brown

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Richard Tyler

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

Richard V. Allen

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

Richard V. Allen

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Richard Marx

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Thucydides

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thomas Nagel

If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.

Thomas E. Mann

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Thomas S. Monson

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Thomas Sowell

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Thomas Reed

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Robert Metcalfe

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

Robert Knepper

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

Robert Heller

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Robert Kennedy

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Robert H. Goddard

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.