The key to success is hard work. You want to feel as comfortable as you can going into the game, and you do that by preparing well.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

What has been so great out of all of the success is that I inspired so many people to take up ventriloquism, especially little kids.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

My core definition of success is my family. They provide me with all the support I need to feel good, both in and outside of my career.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

My husband and I love the saying, success is not owned. It's rented, and rent is due every single day, and I really and truly believe that.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.

Success is built on organisation, determination, and experience, not to mention following the regulations, so of course it's no easy matter.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

For me, the most exciting aspect of my success is how the insights that Ayasdi's technology has found in data can truly impact people's lives.

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.

I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, respected, and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

The idea of dealing with success is always interesting to us: You spend so long struggling to make good, and then what happens when you finally do?

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn't about how high you fly. Success is about how high you bounce.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

I used to think that success was being the number one, being everywhere, being the star, and nowadays, I think that success is to make big things happen.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly.

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