Successful Quotes
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Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.
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For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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At first all we wanted to do was be successful in our home town.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
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What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.