Successful Quotes

• What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • New York
  • Los Angeles
  • Anonymity

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Lucky
  • Musician
  • Struggling

• 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.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • God
  • Prayer

• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Power
  • Successful
  • Ignore

• One of the most important aspects that feed a thriving economy is successful businesses, so the more startups that take off, the better the financial picture is for everyone.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Picture
  • Financial

• I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Want

• People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Successful
  • Gift

• David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Successful

• To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Different
  • Unique

• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Strategy

• We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• '3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Magic
  • Successful
  • Down

• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Involved

• It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Interesting
  • Band
  • Performance

• Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  

  William James
  • Success
  • Positive
  • Amazed

• 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.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Successful

• Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Capability

• The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Causes
  • Fit
  • Columns

• “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.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Queen

• 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.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Couple
  • First
  • Living

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Me
  • Give
  • Industry

• It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Reason
  • Use
  • Fairs

• I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Education
  • Successful
  • Rich

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