Quotes About Success

You know if you give 100 per cent every day that you're going to be happy with yourself. When you lose you've got to pick yourselves up and go again.

My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

I started playing when I was about 16, and I got picked for the England youth team when I was 17 because I was doing quite well. It's all spiralled from there.

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

It was the first time I'd picked up a bat and ball in three years, and it turned out to be a breakout season for me. I was named to the All-Conference team and nominated for All-American.

Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business.

A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.

I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.

I just want to do well in every game that I'm picked to play.

Frankly, this is what you dream about - to get picked for the Test team. That's why you work hard and give it your best day in and day out.

It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, 'Congratulations. You've been picked to go to the Olympic Games.' I kept stressing I wasn't a patient.

For me, I'm a fighter and I like to play for big clubs because that's where you improve yourself. Every day at training you have to give a hundred per cent to be picked by your manager.

When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.