Quotes About Success

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.

We are remembered for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot do.

In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant.

Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.

We are remember e for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot so.

It's been noted that one of the keys to Alfred Hitchcock's success as a filmmaker was that he didn't draw characters as much as he drew character types; this is how he normalized the cinematic experience.

The nineties were (and shall always remain) the absolute zenith for bands whose goal was selling records.

If you want to avoid criticism, it's better to be good than it is to be great.

In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant. The worst thing you could be was a sellout, and not because selling out involved money. Selling out meant you needed to be popular, and any explicit desire for approval was enough to prove you were terrible.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere.

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom, Tyler says, you never really succeed.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fricken life.

If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

We were all so wor­ried about our worst fears, squeez­ing frogs, eat­ing worms, poi­sons, as­bestos, we nev­er con­sid­ered how bor­ing life would be even if we suc­ceed­ed and got a good job.