Won Quotes

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.