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- I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
- Nathan Fillion on Success
- I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
- Jonathan Winters on Success
- I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
- Treat Williams on Success
- I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
- Steve Coogan on Success
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
- Steve Martin on Success
- I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
- I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
- Adam Carolla on Success
- I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
- John D. Rockefeller on Success
- I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
- Nikola Tesla on Success
- I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
- Calvin Klein on Success
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby on Success
- I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
- Tanya Tucker on Success
- I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
- Roger Daltrey on Success
- I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- George S. Patton on Success
- I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
- Christie Hefner on Success
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
- 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.
- Michael Hutchence on Success
- I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
- Kirk Hammett on Success
- 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.
- Jeanne Moreau on Success
- I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
- Frank Luntz on Success
- I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
- I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
- Hugh Laurie on Success
- I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
- Jim Carrey on Success
- I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
- Mindy Kaling on Success
- I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.
- I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- Thomas A. Edison on Success
- I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
- Billy Sheehan on Success
- I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.
- Kevin Mitnick on Success
- I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
- Denzel Washington on Success
- I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
- Patrick Stewart on Success
- I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
- Paul McCartney on Success
- I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
- J. Paul Getty on Success
- I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
- Michael Buble on Success
- I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
- Tennessee Williams on Success
- I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
- Wiz Khalifa on Success
- I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
- Vicente Fox on Success
- I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
- Alan Greenspan on Success
- I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington on Success
- I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau on Success
- I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
- George Michael on Success
- I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
- Alain Prost on Success
- I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
- David Cameron on Success
- I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
- Cameron Diaz on Success
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns on Success
- I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
- Danica Patrick on Success
- I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
- Victor Cruz on Success
- 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.
- Colin Farrell on Success
- I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead on Success
- I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
- Harper Lee on Success
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Success
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