Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice Cube

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

Isaiah Mustafa

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

Imre Lakatos

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Ilka Chase

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

Idris Elba

Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone’s white. That’s what we have to change

Hyman Rickover

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Gloria Stuart

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

Gloria Swanson

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

Gloria Steinem

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

H. G. Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Greg Lake

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Gene Hackman

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Gary Kemp

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

Gary Hamel

... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46

Gary Hamel

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Jessica Valenti

Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.

Jessica Simpson

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

Jerry Baker

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jennifer Aniston

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Graham Norton

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Gloria Estefan

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Gertrude Stein

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

Ellen DeGeneres

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Ian Mcewan

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

Hugh Hefner

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Hugh Jackman

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

Hudson Taylor

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.