Being Successful Quotes - Page 36

• I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Shots, Know How

  "The Hollywood Education of Ben Affleck, from ‘Chasing Amy,’ ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Shakespeare’ to his Second Act and ‘Argo’". Interview with Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

  Bill Walton

  Powerful, Successful, Love Is

  Source: www.theruggedmale.com

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• You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Silly, Mean, Successful

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Depressing, Team

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.

  Tubby Smith

  Teacher, Passion, Successful

  "Noah's interview with Coach Tubby Smith". Woodbury Interview, www.woodburybulletin.com. July 18, 2007.

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• You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.

  Justin Kan

  Successful, Needs, Execution

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• We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Successful, Done

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

  Berti Vogts

  Team, Mean, Successful

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

  Thomas Jones

  Successful, Men, People

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

  Andrew Curry

  Business, Successful, People

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• The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.

  Barbara Cochran

  Leadership, Athlete, Successful

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• I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Successful, Games

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• Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

  Robin Cousins

  Athlete, Successful, Light

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Design

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Successful, Player

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• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Educational, Integrity

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". May 21, 2009.

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• After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Perseverance, Successful

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• The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Successful, Feet

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Kids, Successful

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• Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

  Joe Sakic

  Travel, Commitment, Successful

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• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

  Stephen Covey

  Memories, Creativity, Successful

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• The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

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