#succes

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure. ↗

— Roland Gift

#company #even #failure #feeling #had

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#behind #bluntly #clock #could #drinking

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#conclusion #continue #create #elasticity #experimentation

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people. ↗

— George Weah

#because #benefit #career #comfortable #comfortable life

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim? ↗

— Arabella Weir

#aim #form #goal #once #success

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen. ↗

— Bryan White

#know #many #never #people #reason

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard. ↗

— Edmund White

#course #guard #me #off #own

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acknowledge #acknowledging #confident #does #gratitude