Quotes About Success

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

A lot of the magic that is behind success can be unlocked through mentorships. Mentorships are a fundamental part of the success equation.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

You can't have a good play without good fundamentals.

It used to be true that to succeed in the creative class, you had to move immediately to where the action was. It was how you made connections, how you got auditions, how you found an audience and funding and some attention for your craft. But not anymore.

In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because nobody is going to catch up with you.

Dead End' will see one of the most successful complex cross country funding and I'm sure it will firm up India's position in the global cinema market.

Many times, one does get interesting work, but it is also work that doesn't get funded because one sure-shot way to get funding is to take a big star.

I think it can be difficult to get funding for a film, but I was lucky.

You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings

A keen observer of life once said, no man can fail, if some one person sees him successful. Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who believed in him and held without wavering to the perfect pattern!

He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money . . . and sex. This fellow apparently hadn't. Better for him if he had!

The first thing we agreed upon was that the first ingredient of relapse is the cold-water shock of success.

Writing was my religion, my foremost purpose in life, my consolation. But as the years passed and I didn't have the successes that others deemed the qualifications of a "real" writer, I went into hiding. I wrote, but I lost the strength of my words. I wrote, but with a doubt that needled each sentence, a lack of self-confidence that clouded my imagination. My boldness evaporated. My verve started to become a distant memory. I lost my truth.

But it is dangerous to follow Examples, if they do not correspond in the most material Circumstances with the present State of our Affairs; are not conducted with equal Judgment, or attended with the like Prospect of Success.

What's more, he's just become the richest boy in Sweet Valley!

You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I'm not saying you shouldn't read such writers, some of whom are excellent and deserving of celebrity. I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d'excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu'un goût de défaite.

Be the best. There is no second place.