Quotes About Success

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.

I am the first one in my family to become a part of Bollywood.

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.

Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.

Winning my second title feels just as good as the first one.

I did my first film Junglee and it became a hit. That film was the first one to bring the real colour on the big screen, which was Eastmancolor.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

Of course, it is difficult to arrive at a big team in the first place, but it is even harder to stay there.

At the end of the season, the important thing is to be in first place. It doesn't matter if you score 15 or 20.

There's a misconception that, as you have success with a band for a long time, things get easier, and that's not necessarily true. It's harder to keep connecting with that fire that got you started in the first place when you're amongst all the politics in the business, and just having a little bit of that looming pressure.

You have to work really hard to be first place in life.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

How I fight is what got me into the UFC in the first place.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who'd done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan and I it was the start of our careers.

My first thing was a McDonald's commercial.

When a black person gets money, becomes a successful - say, billionaire - first thing they do is move out of the black community. They just don't move out to be safer or move out to get a better house. They cut the cord.

Whatever I want, the next car or the next house, I stick a picture of it to the back of my door, so I can look at it first thing in the morning and dream it into existence.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

I made my first World Championships team at 12.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.