I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
~By Will McDonough ~
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
~By Toni Braxton ~
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
~By Groucho Marx ~
It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
~By Casey Stengel ~
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
~By Charles Jules Henry Nicole ~
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
~By Robert Stack ~
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
~By Vin Diesel ~
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
~By Bob Filner ~
Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
~By Kiana Tom ~
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
~By Bruce Henderson ~
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
~By Ben Stein ~
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
~By John Sebastian ~
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~By Brian Tracy ~
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
~By Maude Adams ~
Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.
~By Kevin Sorbo ~
Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
~By Frederick Reines ~
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
~By Napolean Hill ~
The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.
~By Michael Schudson ~
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
~By Ted Allen ~
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
~By Deborah Kerr ~
Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.
~By Elaine Paige ~
I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
~By Caroline Corr ~
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
~By Robert Menzies ~
Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
~By Dan DeCarlo ~
I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
~By Benjamin F. Fairless ~
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
~By Susie Bright ~
I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
~By Helen Reddy ~
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
~By Marc Davis ~
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
~By Saku Koivu ~
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
~By Donna Rice ~
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
~By Boy George ~
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
~By James E. Burke ~
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
~By Donald Johanson ~
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
~By Mark Spitz ~
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
~By Erskine Bowles ~
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
~By Steve Harvey ~
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
~By Pat Summerall ~
First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
~By Dave Winfield ~
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
~By John Linder ~
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
~By Michael Porter ~
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
~By Alan Thicke ~
The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
~By Phil Harris ~
They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.
~By Margot Kidder ~
Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.
~By Anne Ford ~
I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~By Alex Noble ~
I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.
~By Brett Hull ~
But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.
~By Deana Carter ~
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
~By Claude M. Bristol ~
The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.
~By Howard Stern ~
Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
~By Robert Shea ~
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
~By Paul Sweeney ~
Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.
~By David Rose ~
If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
~By Brian Tracy ~
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
~By Munshi Premchand ~
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~By Tom Peters ~
They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.
~By Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka ~
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
~By Susan Sontag ~
If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
~By Judy Holliday ~
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
~By Mark Spitz ~
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