Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheila Johnson

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

Taylor Swift

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Tavis Smiley

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

Tanya Tucker

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

Kary Mullis

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Lawrence Welk

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Kurt Warner

I've always known that if I got the right opportunity and the right system, I could be successful.

John Kasich

If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.

John Kenneth Galbraith

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

John Daly

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.

John D. Rockefeller

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

John Chancellor

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

Lisa Alther

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Linus Torvalds

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

Linus Torvalds

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Lindsay Davenport

While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.

Lincoln Steffens

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Lil Wayne

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

Leo Tolstoy

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

Peter Gabriel

When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

Peter Bogdanovich

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Peter Bergen

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Phil Crosby

Successful people breed success.

Phil Anselmo

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

Peter Senge

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

Pete Sampras

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

Phoebe Snow

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

Puff Daddy

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

Joseph Kosinski

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Joss Whedon

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Kobe Bryant

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.