#pro

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit. ↗

— Christian Slater

#blue #face #hit #i #i am

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals. ↗

— Christian Slater

#good time #had #i #john #john travolta

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully. ↗

— Amy Smart

#continue #grow #growth #hopefully #i

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#discovery #failure #finding #learn #made

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#advance #best #cannot #comparatively #great

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#advance #best #cannot #comparatively #great

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#conquered #entirely #knowledge #labor #our

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#capitalism #child #devices #everyone #fairly

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old. ↗

— Mel Torme

#any #begin #course #did #drums

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#case #country #expect #expectations #learn