“I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.”
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“I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.”
“The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.”
“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”
“You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.”
“Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.”
“Success comes in waves.”
“We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.”
“There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.”
“Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.”
“I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.”
“Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.”
“There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.”
“Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.”
“To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.”
“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
“All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.”
“Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.”
“Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.”
“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.”
“I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.”
“With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'”
“If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.”