My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I’d been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14. 630
I’ve had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event. 568
Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we’re told we can do everything – you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career. 714
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings. 1.37K
We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present. 2.31K
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States. 654
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians. 842
The successful man doesn’t use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service. 612
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don’t really think me as a long jumper, although that’s the event I had more success in. 855
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type. 633
I’m in the studio 24 hours a day. It’s true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. 644
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. 627
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. 784
