Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Renner

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Jenny Agutter

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Jenny Eclair

I don't think I'm successful.

Glenn Beck

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

Glenn Beck

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Paul Ryan

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

Paul Ryan

We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?

Paul Ryan

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

Paul Harvey

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

Paul Goodman

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

Pat Conroy

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

Jurgen Habermas

The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process , that is by the completion of self-reflection , and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves

Julia Morgan

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Judd Apatow

I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.

Judd Apatow

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

Judd Apatow

The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.

Joseph Sobran

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

Lisi Harrison

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

Leontyne Price

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Paul George

In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that as a technique can be presupposed to be the most promising, However, consultations are ongoing amongst different reproductive technique experts on the way forward.

Patrick Rothfuss

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Padma Lakshmi

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

Padma Lakshmi

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

Paloma Faith

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Lilly Singh

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

Lily Allen

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Lillian Hellman

Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.

Lillian Hellman

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

LeRoy Neiman

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

Learned Hand

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.