The Of Success Quotes

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

You must be present to win.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Success is to achieve some of your dreams that you have dreamed as a boy.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

Without new ideas success can become stale

The key to success is often the ability to adapt

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?