Jonathan Ames Quotes

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Jonathan Ames

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• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Success

• I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

  

  Oliver North
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
  • Fall
  • Apart

• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fall
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  

  Mae West
  • She
  • Success
  • Girl

• I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • High
  • Success
  • Effort

• If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Work
  • God
  • Fall

• That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Different
  • Done
  • Running

• I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Hand
  • Fall
  • Water

• If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • College
  • Fall
  • Advice

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Machines
  • Structure
  • Protein

• I was driving by an auto auction one day, and they were auctioning off a beautiful Hispano-Suiza. I started bidding even though I hadn't even signed up with the officials. The last bid was $50,000, and it was mine. And I thought, 'My God, what have I done? I've never spent more than $500 in my life.' That was the first one.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

  

  Jonathan Ames
  • Success
  • Fall
  • Edge