#succes

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#did #earned #father #find #hard

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. ↗

— Carrot Top

#beings #hate #human #human beings #like

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. ↗

— Ville Valo

#aware #bands #booze #early #early age

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#ancestors #call #glorious #history #mistakes

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#american life #due #fact #i #i think

I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#changed #chase #dream #energy #enough

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed. ↗

— Mark Warner

#after #depended #due #failed #friends

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#british #courage #despair #every #except

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#lot #mistake #successes #well

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achieve #alphabet #believe #believe-and-achieve #believing