Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Douglas Adams

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

Doris Lessing

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

Donna Summer

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Donna Shalala

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

Donna Tartt

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."

Donald Knuth

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

Don Tapscott

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Donal Logue

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Colin Powell

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

Claire McCaskill

I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

Daniel Quinn

The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.

Daniel Radcliffe

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

Damien Fahey

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

Cynthia Nixon

Nancy Reagan sort of downplayed that, you know - but she was quite successful. At the time she married Ronald Reagan, I think she was keenly aware that [Reagan's first wife] Jane Wyman's career had eclipsed Ronald Reagan's, so she was very determined not to have that happen.

Clive Anderson

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Dustin Hoffman

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

Dustin Hoffman

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

Dustin Hoffman

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

Drew Houston

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

Donald Trump

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

Donald Trump

That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

Donald Trump

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

Donald Trump

You have to pinpoint the market, and if you don't pinpoint the market, you won't be successful.

Donald Trump

There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Anne Sweeney

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Angela Merkel

I want us to be able to preserve our level of prosperity. We must constantly remind ourselves that Germany has been eating into its capital. It is only through successful management that we can once again secure our foundation of prosperity and social security.

Althea Gibson

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Allison Williams

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Anna Garlin Spencer

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Anna Eshoo

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.