Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Gladwell

The successful are those who have been given opportunities,

Malcolm Gladwell

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Malcolm Gladwell

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

Malcolm Gladwell

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Magnus Carlsen

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Magic Johnson

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

Major Taylor

I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

Major Taylor

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Mahatma Gandhi

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Gavin DeGraw

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Gavin Rossdale

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Gavin Rossdale

When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I'll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.

Fred Thompson

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster

Fred Thompson

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

Frank Leahy

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

Joseph Pilates

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

Justin Bieber

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

Jules Renard

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

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?