Quotes on Successful

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Author: Hank Aaron

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Author: Lynn Abbey

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Author: George Adams

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Author: Maude Adams

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Author: Jenny Agutter

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Author: Wayne Allard

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Author: B. Ambedkar

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Author: Clive Anderson

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Author: Francesca Annis

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Author: Hannah Arendt

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Author: Neil Armstrong

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Author: Julian Assange

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Author: Roger Babson

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Author: Kevin Bacon

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Author: Douglas Bader

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

Author: Robert Barany

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Author: Joel Barker

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Author: Joel Barker

I loved Australia. I was very successful there.

Author: Todd Barry

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

Author: Kate Beckinsale

When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

Author: Ed Belfour

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

Author: Ed Belfour

I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

Author: Ed Belfour

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

Author: Dennis Bergkamp

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Author: Henry Bessemer

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

Author: Joan Blades

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Author: Harold Bloom

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

Author: Leo Bogart

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Author: Edward Bono

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Author: Pierre Bourdieu

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

Author: Matthew Bourne

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Author: David Brenner

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

Author: Todd Bridges

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Author: Sergey Brin

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Author: David Brinkley

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Author: Claude Bristol

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Author: Van Brooks

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Author: Bob Brown

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Author: Helen Brown

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

Author: Julie Brown

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Author: Rita Brown

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Author: James Burke

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Author: Melvin Calvin

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Author: Bliss Carman

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Author: Mel Carnahan

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Author: Dale Carnegie

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

Author: David Cassidy

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Author: Prince Charles

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Author: Alexander Chase

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Author: Lydia Child

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

Author: Linford Christie

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

Author: Hillary Clinton

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

Author: Jonathan Coe

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

Author: James Coleman

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

Author: Robert Conrad

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Author: Tre Cool

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

Author: Francis Coppola

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

Author: Francis Coppola

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Author: Bob Cousy

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Author: Quentin Crisp

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

Author: Kenny Dalglish

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Author: Chuck Daly

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Author: Chuck Daly

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Author: Mitch Daniels

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

Author: Paula Danziger

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Author: Bette Davis

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

Author: Robin Day

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

Author: Dan DeCarlo

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

Author: Ajay Devgan

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

Author: John Doolittle

The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

Author: Jim Doyle

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Author: Jermaine Dupri

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

Author: John Engler

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

Author: Anna Eshoo

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Author: Stephen Evans

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

Author: Greg Evigan

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

Author: Shawn Fanning

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

Author: Dorothy Fields

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Author: Carlisle Floyd

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

Author: Dan Fogelberg

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

Author: Henry Fonda

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

Author: Anne Ford

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Author: Gene Fowler

So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

Author: Virginia Foxx

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

Author: Vincent Frank

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Author: Erich Fromm

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Author: Robert Frost

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Author: R. Fuller

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Author: Antoine Fuqua

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Author: John Galbraith

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Author: Robert Gallagher

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

Author: Jerry Garcia

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Author: Jesse Garrett

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Author: Lesley Garrett

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Author: Steve Garvey

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

Author: Boy George

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Author: William Gladstone

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Author: Bob Goodlatte

I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

Author: Colin Greenwood

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

Author: Judith Guest

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Author: Cathy Guisewite

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

Author: James Gunn

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

Author: David Guterson

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Author: Robert Half

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

Author: Phil Harris

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Author: George Harrison

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

Author: Dan Hawkins

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

Author: Trip Hawkins

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

Author: Michael Hayden

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Author: Bobby Heenan

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Author: Don Henley

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Author: Keith Henson

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Author: Napolean Hill

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Author: Napolean Hill

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Author: Napolean Hill

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Author: Ruben Hinojosa

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

Author: Anthony Hitt

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

Author: Peter Hobson

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Author: Dustin Hoffman

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Author: Lou Holtz

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Author: Edgar Howe

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Author: Brett Hull

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

Author: Brett Hull

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Author: William Hurt

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Author: Lee Iacocca

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Author: James Iha

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

Author: Jeremy Irons

I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

Author: Ian Jackson

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

Author: Victoria Jackson

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Author: William James

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

Author: Penn Jillette

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Author: Donald Johanson