Quotes

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

When it comes to Vijay Antony, he's very calculative and is ready to go to any extent for the success of the movie.

I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.

When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy.

I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.

I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.