I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board: read widely, learn the craft by whatever means you can - workshops and writing programs are ideal, but even self-study can w...
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling S...
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.
I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
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 cit...
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership.
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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...
