Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey S. Firestone

Success is the sum of details.

Harold Prince

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

James D'arcy

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

James D. Watson

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

James Brown

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

Jakob Nielsen

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Jaime Pressly

It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story, you've got to be able to continue to tell this story.

Jack White

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Isaac Asimov

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

Elon Musk

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Elton John

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

Elton John

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

Elton John

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Ellen Barkin

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

Irving Berlin

We got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Ingrid Bergman

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

Neale Donald Walsch

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Nancy Sinatra

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Morgan Freeman

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Morgan Freeman

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Milan Kundera

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Marat Safin

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

Joseph Addison

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Joseph Addison

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Joseph Addison

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Access to the national dividend is usually to be had only on condition of some productive service previously rendered or of some product previously sold. This condition is, in this case, not yet fulfilled. It will be fulfilled only after the successful completion of the new combinations. Hence this credit will in the meantime affect the price level.