Successful Quotes - Page 122

Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.

I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people - do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone's white. That's what we have to change.

Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.

We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali.

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

I don't see myself as successful because I've worked on only a handful of films. The way I look at it, if you're really, really lucky, if you consistently work hard over the course of ten years, if you refuse to take no for an answer, if you surround yourself with great mentors and are a sponge, willing to learn, then you're bound for something to happen.

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.