Quotes About Success

doubt is less easily dispelled than illusion, and with doubt come tentative half-measures—and nothing worthwhile has ever been accomplished by tentative half-measures.

Deictic framing can be successfully taught, however, and when it is, perspective-taking and theory-of-mind skills improve

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

A really important lesson in investing is that being either too far in front or too far behind is when you get hurt, whereas being right at the edge of the wave is where the money is made. And our job is not to be right, but to make money.

Death? Since when is death failure?

Victory is an illusion. In all things.

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

Whenever I get a script I skip from the leading role to the second or third friend as I think, 'no one famous will want that so I might get it!'

A lot of times,, you are not going to fit in; a lot of times you are going to have to skip those parties to get to where you want to be.

Sometimes as players achieve more and more and get further down the line in their careers, they tend to skip over the work part.

I don't recommend skipping college, but things have worked out for me.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

I was 50 when I had my first show, so I was never on television with a short skirt or decollete; I never tried to look or be younger.

I'm really proud of 'Broken Skull Challenge.'

If anyone has it in him to work hard, he can rise from the earth and touch the sky.

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

I've got an opportunity that not many people have - to be the leader of Team Sky as I enter the prime years of my career.

Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

I won't have a standout moment until I perform at the VMAs, meet Ryan Gosling, and hug Sky Ferreira.

If you're given a chance, and you're driven and obsessed and consumed when given the opportunity to prove people right, the sky is the limit.

I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.

Rock stars aren't crapped out of the sky.