I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they,...
The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.
Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you ...
In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field posse...
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success...
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's...
I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else...
I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put...
I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.
