Successful Quotes
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
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To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.
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I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
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You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
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One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
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Being successful is kind of dull.
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.
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I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
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“She’s a queen and a mother and it’s a mother’s job to be scary,” said Wish. “Well she’s very successful at her job,” shivered Bodkin.
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It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
