Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

If there is any secret to my success I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel and therefore I think my readers care about them.

My definition of success is control.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

I mean we are tribal by nature and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship hardship tends to unify.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece anywhere is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

Well you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward making connections and building relationships.

My store Wine Library outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward making connections and building relationships.

I was if you like a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

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 not a narrative realist.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign and not a bad one - in particular dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence an indication of its success.

To me success is choice and opportunity.

Anyone who has to fight even with the most modern weapons against an enemy in complete command of the air fights like a savage against modern European troops under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

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.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.