Quotes About Success

Gano muchísima pasta. Tengo que ganar muchísima pasta para untar a los tipos a los que tengo que untar para ganar muchísima pasta y untar así a los tipos que tengo que untar.

For such a woman, a child is so substantial a setback to her own ambition that, in order to offset the setback, the child must earn back its existence by being so exceptional as to add to, rather than subtract from, the ambitious mother's tallying of her successes. So feminism, I am sorry to say, has only intensified the projectification of children.

the success of relativistic quantum field theory offers no reason to believe that there is any such thing as a relativistic quantum field.

And I would add, by the way, that this projectification of the child has only increased with the liberation of women. Ambitious women, who have invested so much in their education and careers, are required to make sacrifices to their own advancement by the obstruction that is a child. And so these mothers will require of that child that it really be worth the sacrifice, worth the slowing down of their own scramble up the ladder of success.

All of life is like this. You may attempt over and over again to accomplish a goal, but if you do so from an intellectual standpoint only, you'll rarely be successful.

Toda tu vida funciona así. Aunque intentes lograr un objetivo una y otra vez, si sólo lo haces desde un punto de vista intelectual, rara vez tendrás éxito. Sin embargo, si tu objetivo te apasiona, el éxito estará prácticamente asegurado.

Fire, brimstone and impending apocalypse have always had great success in the pulpit, and the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.

The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there's another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your reach.

We are winning," said the graffiti in Seattle, not "We have won." It's a way of telling in which you can feel successful without feeling smug, in which you can feel challenged without feeling defeated.

What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some promised land; it is the series of imperfect victories along the way that edge us closer to building the critical mass that eventually shifts the status quo.

The worst imaginable thing happens to our protagonists: they have a son who grows up to become Dennis Hopper. ("Giantess")

Cooking is likewise a mode of transformation and a pleasure to which I often repair, and it sometimes seems so pleasurable because it is the opposite of writing; it engages all the senses; it's immediate and unreproduceable and then it's complete and eaten and over. The tasks are simple, messy, fragrant, and brief, and success and failure are easy to determine.

Buadhann an thoighde ar an gcinneamhain.

Like the Fat Man said, it wasn't your collars kept you awake, it was the ones that got away

Through my failures I have learned how to live - and the more I failed, the more I learned. In my search for the limits, I have failed more than most, and it is this that has made me successful, over and over again.

For me, success is not measured at the end of life. A successful life is what you have when you are doing things. There are moments when I overcome difficulties, and that's when I feel strong and fulfilled. My success, my life, was nothing more than turning ideas into reality.

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Estamos en guerra. Mi táctica bélica puede resumirse en dos principios. Primero, yo sólo ataco cosas que triunfan, en ocasiones espero hasta que lo consiguen. Segundo, yo sólo ataco cuando no voy a encontrar aliados, cuando estoy solo, cuando me comprometo exclusivamente a mí mismo.

Companies respect conformity and uniformity, but they fail to see how limiting both are. Without change and innovation, companies cannot adapt to new realities. At one time, Singer was one of the biggest companies in the United States. Today, we're not using Singer cell phones because the company was unable to adapt.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated, and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organization.

Semco's most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees' success.

Organizations rarely believe they're to blame when an employee underperforms, but if the organization doesn't provide the opportunity for success, it's their fault when people falter.

Semco, we abolish manuals, procedures, and policies so that people are free to improvise, to soar, and to collect the moments of happiness that constitute genuine success.

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it gain. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me. - p113