Evan Esar Quotes

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

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• Democrats hate success.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Democrats

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Success
  • Here
  • Educated

• I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Lost

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Real
  • Serious
  • Face

• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Important
  • Success
  • Attitude

• It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Career
  • Success
  • Destroyed

• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Great
  • Success
  • Mistake

• I believe that every employee, from the CEO suite to the factory floor, contributes to a business’ success, so everybody should share in the rewards – especially those putting in long hours for little pay.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Business

• 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

• To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Success

• People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Mind
  • Success

• But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Time
  • Success

• I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

  

  Charles J. Givens
  • Life
  • Success

• Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Movie
  • Success

• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Past

• Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Life
  • Blood
  • Vampire

• If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • Heart

• If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Success
  • Face
  • Climb