Quotes

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community.

All parents want their kids to be on a healthy track to success.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

The secret of success is sincerity.

With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell.

A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

What did you have the potential to do? And if you came close to that, if you maximized that, then you were a success in God's eyes. So many of us do things that the world would say is successful, but we have so much more potential.

When I heard Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' I reflected on the fact that much of the success of that movement was driven by the unity of the church.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.

Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.

Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership.