Successes Quotes
-
Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
-
An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
-
I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.
-
Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.
-
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
-
You can’t fully prepare. You do your best to acquire diverse skills. You try to learn from your successes and mistakes over the years. You try to assemble a team with varied talents and expertise. Mostly, you strive to stay calm enough to think clearly even under extreme pressure. You try to use the adrenaline for focus rather than panic. You stay on your toes, ready to improvise. And you hope for the best.
-
The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.
-
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
-
Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.
-
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
-
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
-
Authentic success is living by your own lights.
