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Quotes About Success

My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did." Bast
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's a good sign when a student goes chasing the wind and catches it,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
El sueño habría puesto en peligro el espíritu del éxito
~ Patrick Süskind
The second rule is: perfume lives in time; it has its youth, its maturity, and its old age. And only if it gives off a scent equally pleasant at all three different stages of its life, can it be called successful
~ Patrick Süskind
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
~ Patrick Stewart
I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!
~ Patsy Cline
Learners who are successful may indeed be highly motivated. But can we conclude that they became successful because of their motivation? It is also plausible that early success heightened their motivation, or that both success and motivation are due to their special aptitude for language learning or the favourable context in which they were learning.
~ Unknown
Nevertheless, Michael Erard's (2012) review of the cases of some of history's most successful learners of multiple languages shows that their unusual talent was also associated with a willingness to work hard at tasks that many would consider too boring or difficult, such as using word cards to study vocabulary.
~ Unknown
Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums.
~ Patti Smith
And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos—the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
~ Patti Smith
The only real success is when you've done something well.
~ Patti Smith
It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.
~ Patti Thor
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
~ Paul A. Volcker
Did I realize at the time how high interest rates might go before we could claim success? No. From today's vantage point, was there a better path? Not to my knowledge—not then or now.
~ Paul A. Volcker
The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions.
~ Paul A.M. Dirac
Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.
~ Paul Arden
If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make it your business to be there.
~ Paul Arden
Failure was a major contributor to its success.
~ Paul Arden
Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.
~ Paul Arden
She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.
~ Unknown
But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.
~ Paul Auster