I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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?
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.
As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
