I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.
The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
