My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

To this day most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper although that's the event I had more success in.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

Look if you ask a child 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen ' are distinctively like their hosts so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.

With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic but you never really enjoy success.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about and having success means I can do more.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else but if you really want to knock it out of the park you have to do something different and take chances.

Do something you really like and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned that's success.

In the end you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

My career started young and I was really ambitious and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Anytime you play a team sport the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now so I feel really good about myself.

I always think when there's stuff that people don't like I always say that if I have another success I'll enjoy it more but you don't really.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent you can achieve success.

For a good 10 to 12 years I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.