I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
