George Burton Adams Quotes

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

George Burton Adams

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• Encouragement

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• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Success
  • You

• Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Innocent

• I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Judge

• I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Character

• There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Professional

• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • She
  • Pretty

• 'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Different
  • Success
  • Goal

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Success
  • Jealousy

• Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Character
  • Change

• There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Think
  • Helpful

• In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Heart

• My first film would have been 'Rough,' and it got delayed. 'Venkatadri Express' released first and became a big success. I signed 'Venkatadri' after 15 days of shooting for 'Rough'. I had lot of faith in the script, and I feel luck plays a major part.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Success
  • Faith
  • Luck

• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Success
  • Question
  • Yourself

• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Real
  • Business
  • Success

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• If poetry were nothing but texture, Dylan Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Success
  • Poetry

• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  

  Bill Shankly
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Success

• I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Friends
  • Football
  • Famous

• The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Family
  • Unique
  • Christmas

• There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

  

  George Burton Adams
  • Character
  • Success
  • Encouragement