Michael Jackson Quotes

Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

Michael Jackson

• Success
• Loneliness

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• Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Success
  • Culture
  • Success Is

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Two

• It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • May
  • Success
  • Poetry

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Women
  • Success
  • Design

• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • American
  • Death
  • Success

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  

  Dan Millman
  • People
  • Success
  • Fear

• Nothing recedes like success.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Success
  • Like
  • Nothing

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Success
  • Jews
  • Resentment

• Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

  

  Ed Markey
  • World
  • Success
  • Security

• When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Success

• The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Matter

• Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Desire
  • 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

• Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Fun
  • Success
  • Party

• It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Success

• Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Work
  • Running

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld

• When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Up
  • Live
  • Done

• Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Success
  • Loneliness