Successful Quotes

I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.