Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Oswalt

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

Thomas Malthus

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

Ray Stevenson

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

Ray Romano

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

Ray Romano

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

Ray McGovern

Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?

Ray Manzarek

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

Ray Kurzweil

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Ray Kroc

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Ray Kroc

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Raquel Welch

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Ratan Tata

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Ratan Tata

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

Randy Bachman

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Thomas Jefferson

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Thomas Jefferson

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Robin G. Collingwood

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

Robert Rubin

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.

Robert Redford

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Robert Redford

I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my wrinkles. I thought, you mean this is what it's gonna be about now? I'm not going to be permitted to be human?

Robert Redford

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Robert Collier

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Rob Zombie

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Robert Fisk

Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,

Walt Disney

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

Walter Martin

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

Walter Lippmann

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Walter Lippmann

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.