Writers as they gain success feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
When one has success the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.
I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up never stop.
You know I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
That's the key to success isn't it? It has to be fun.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.
I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
I think that everybody in the world whatever colour or creed has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father uncle cousin or brother everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also I damn well deserve it!
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
For example the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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.
If there's no fire there's no scream. If there's no scream then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.
In high school in sport I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.