Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.
It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
