Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Kosinski

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Joss Whedon

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Kobe Bryant

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Kofi Annan

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

Kevin Kline

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Kevin J. Anderson

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Kevin Hart

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

Kevin Hart

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

Kevin Hart

I am in control of my career, and that's what so many actors don't take advantage of. You get to these successful points, and you continue to just work for other people. But, when you're your own brand and you're your own boss, the whole line of work changes. That's my biggest turn on.

Kelly Rowan

Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way… where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.

Kelly Macdonald

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Rainn Wilson

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.

Rahm Emanuel

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Sean Penn

The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

Sean Penn

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Liam Neeson

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

Liam Neeson

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Les Brown

Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

Cindy Adams

We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done.

Robert Kiyosaki

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.

Robert Kiyosaki

All depends on how determined we are to be successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking

Robert Kiyosaki

Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Robert Kiyosaki

You cannot be successful without failure.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

To me, it's not a lay-up to be a successful IPO.

Tony LaRussa

You can't be successful without it. It'll make him a better pitcher. He's a talented guy.

George S. Patton

There is no such thing as a successful defence.