Quotes About Success

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.

Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it's great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That's the key.

Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

When I was offered to sing 'Tere Bina' in 'Guru' by A. R. Rahman sir, it was a surreal experience. The song clicked, and many composers took notice of me and my work then.

There were a lot of surreal, amazing moments during my career that I'm very lucky to have had.

I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.

It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing.

It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!

It's been great; the whole experience was surreal to me. To go from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men' was like a dream. I could never have thought when I left 'EastEnders' that I would get this good a gig and so soon.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

I left home at 21 to go and play for Munich and was immediately able to perform at a high standard. It was totally surreal, and I had no idea where it might lead.

I'm a confident guy. But it's surreal to hear my name called in the same breath as Randy Moss, my favorite receiver. That's the cool thing about having some success.

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

Just imagine, I was doing exams and signing autographs for other students. It was surreal. I'm really proud that I passed.

To be a two-division champion, it's surreal, man.

Its a surreal feeling. You work on something for a long time, for two years, and then the promotion of it all happens very quickly.

My first dream, of course, was to play quarterback at Ohio State. That was surreal for me, to the point where it went by so fast, I didn't get to enjoy it.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

I certainly admire people who do things.

had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.

If God were omnipresent and omniscient in any literal sense, he wouldn't have bothered to make the universe at all. There is no success where there is no possibility of failure, no art without the resistance of the medium.