Successful Quotes

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

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.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.