Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Saul Alinsky

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

Roseanne Barr

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful.

Roseanne Barr

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

Ronnie Montrose

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Rokia Traore

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.

Robert Wise

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

Robert Trout

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

Robert Quillen

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

Roger Babson

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Satoru Iwata

As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.

Sasha Azevedo

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Samuel Johnson

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

Robert Barry

I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.

Rob Lowe

I meet so many people. I want to be genuine and open with everyone, because when I was young and just starting out, I remember I was around people who were successful, and I thought that some were kind of cool or off-putting to their fans. It always really bothered me. So I think I may sometimes go too far out of my way.

Richard M. Nixon

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

Ricardo Semler

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

Robert D. Hare

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

Vera Brittain

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

Van Wyck Brooks

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Valentino Garavani

Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without it, you can't be successful. But luck is something you have to stimulate, something you have to nurture through the choices you make...That's why things have always worked out for me. Things work out not just because I'm lucky, but because I plan ahead. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I've always spent a lot of time trying to surround myself with the right people, the kinds of teammates who could lead me to my goals.

Richard Dawkins

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

Roger Ailes

To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.

Robin Wright

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

Treat Williams

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

Treat Williams

I couldnt imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

Trent Reznor

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

Steve Vai

I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

Steve Vai

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

Vince Flynn

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

Vince Gilligan

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.