Quotes About Accomplishment

My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

Success is overwhelming.

Success is very enjoyable in any field. But for me, success is not in terms of financial gains.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.

It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

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.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

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.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

There's such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

You have people that make suggestions you got people that do things.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.