#sf

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #deal #first #great #great deal

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#agent #anything #becoming #easy #get

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. ↗

— Tris Speaker

#attempt #batting #explain #player #successful

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#everything #integrity #successful

I know you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But if there was any woman made for me … it’s you. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#dysfunctional-relationship #love-story #the-one #beauty

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. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock

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. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#care #champion #could #himself #perseverance

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#again #bad #bailed #bailout #bank

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#actor #ask #demands #difficult #laws

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#generation #grown #lens #look #looking