Quotes about success
successful years interesting
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them. Daniel Kahneman
successful knowing luck
Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
success benefits
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. Cullen Hightower
success perseverance mistake
Success ... seems to be connected with action. ... Conrad Hilton
successful media operators
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. Conrad Black
success heart thinking
I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. Clint Eastwood
successful love-is acting
Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members. Danny Masterson
successful ideas black
Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am. Danny Glover
successful ideas black
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
successful god-knows havens
God knows, I haven't always been successful. Daniel Day-Lewis
successful design evolution
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.' Daniel Dennett
successful want fame
Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside. Dan Colen
successful eight two
Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story. David Fincher
successful happy-life parent
Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were. David Foster Wallace
successful knives criticism
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. David Coverdale
successful survival benefits
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment. David Attenborough
successful unique design
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour. Donatella Versace
successful design needs
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
successful television film
Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television. Dylan McDermott
success jail age
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) Dwight D. Eisenhower
successful married politician
Like all successful politicians I married above myself.
success business military
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
success past perspective
The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
success attitude optimistic
Pessimism never won any battle.
success witty memorial-day
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
successful fire pilots
The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. Douglas Bader
successful boredom dull
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on. Douglas Adams
successful reason significance
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
successful car getting-lost
He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.
success new-york war
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
success impossible failing
Act as though it is impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande
successful consciousness type
Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness. Doris Lessing
successful disco-music born
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful. Donna Summer