Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Renard

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Joshua L. Liebman

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Joshua Lederberg

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Josh Billings

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Karl Kraus

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

Julius Wellhausen

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

Julius Erving

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Joyce Kilmer

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Kanye West

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Kanye West

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

Kanye West

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

June Jordan

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

Julian Fellowes

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Judy Garland

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Maria Shriver

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Paul Tillich

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Paul Krugman

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

Paul Cummings

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.

Paul Dickson

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Paul Dirac

It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

Paul Davies

No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming. And no subject conforms this paradoical conjuction more starkly than the origin of the universe.

Patrick Swayze

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Patrick Swayze

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Patrick Geddes

Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

Paola Antonelli

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

John Sebastian

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

John Searle

There is no success or failure in Nature.

John Philip Sousa

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Mark Strong

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

Nick Lowe

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

Nicholas Lemann

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.