I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
There is no success without hardship.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away... I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in Dannemora.'
Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.
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