Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christian Bale

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

Chris Lehane

If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

George W. Bush

The fundamental question is: 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.

George Strait

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

George Soros

However, you have to recognize that regulations will never be completely successful and they will always be full of holes. You must constantly be ready to fill new holes. Actually regulation should be kept to a minimum, but there has to be some cooperation between market participants and authorities - as was the case in the early postwar years. The Bank of England was a very successful regulator by cooperating with market participants. This cooperative spirit was broken by the market fundamentalists.

George Soros

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

George Soros

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

George Soros

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

George Soros

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

George Soros

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

Gene Simmons

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Garry Winogrand

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

Garry Winogrand

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

Gail Sheehy

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Fernando Pessoa

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Ferdie Pacheco

I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

Caterina Fake

No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

Cat Stevens

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

George Eliot

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

George Eliot

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Gabe Newell

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Gabe Newell

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

Gabe Newell

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

George Jean Nathan

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

George Jean Nathan

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

Chris Hardwick

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

Christian Siriano

For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Christa McAuliffe

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

J. Cole

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.