People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it. 777
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too. 842
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. 804
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. 2.35K
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. 890
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it’s about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity. 767
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. 931
If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. 719
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It’s fertiliser, it’s like living fertiliser, because you’re forced on yourself. 743
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. 979
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got. 948
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. 1.42K
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going. 733
Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn’t always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company’s core business. 818
Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities – and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today? 741
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it’s about how many peoples’ lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before. 807
