Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Daldry

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

Stephen Covey

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Viktor E. Frankl

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Vanessa Marano

Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

Val Kilmer

The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.

Susan Wojcicki

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Susan Stroman

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Taron Egerton

Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.

Tariq Ramadan

I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.

Steven Moffat

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

Steven Pinker

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

Susan Jeffers

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.

Sun Tzu

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

Robbie Keane

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Rico Love

I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

Rico Love

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.

Richard Stallman

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Richard Simmons

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

Richard Harris

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Hamming

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Richard Allen

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

Tariq Ramadan

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

T. Harv Eker

Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

T. Harv Eker

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.

T. Harv Eker

It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them.

T. Harv Eker

There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside of you.

T. S. Eliot

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Sylvester Stallone

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

Suze Orman

Liking who you are and liking what you do can make you an incredibly successful person.

Ron Ben-Israel

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

Romola Garai

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.