“I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.”
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“I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.”
“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”
“I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.”
“Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.”
“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.”
“To me, success is choice and opportunity.”
“Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.”
“The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.”
“I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.”
“My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.”
“I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.”
“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”
“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
“I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.”
“A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.”
“I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.”
“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”
“My definition of success is control.”
“If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.”
“All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.”
“The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.”
“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.”
“Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.”