I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it’s like a labor of love, it’s not a huge career. It’s not that successful, but it’s something I love so much that I’ll do it regardless. – Amy Ray
You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I wouldn’t say there isn’t a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren’t going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it. – Clayton M. Christensen
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been. – Barry Zito
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’ – Bono
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they’re not intimidated by them. If I’m doing ‘Boy Meets Grill,’ and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes. – Bobby Flay
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. – Bruce Feiler
There are a lot of people who think that’s what’s needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. – Amy Tan
The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it – rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful. – Clayton M. Christensen
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you’re not very successful and you’re not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn’t yield successful results. – Clayton Christensen
I think it’s amazing that I’m 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life. – Amy Landecker
Government is really successful when it’s willing to make big, bold objectives, like, ‘We’re going to get to the moon.’ But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck. – Bill Maris
‘Fragile,’ of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though. – Chris Squire
Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric. – Arthur Laffer
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur’an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet… we will be successful. – Cat Stevens
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. – Bernard Baruch
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? – Bertrand Russell
Look at ‘American Idol,’ which I don’t look at. Those winners haven’t become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can’t aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful. – Andre Leon Talley
I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I’ve seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, ‘If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.’ – Curt Schilling
You aren’t going to be successful as a diplomat if you don’t understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It’s not. – Condoleezza Rice
When you’re that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can’t really tell whether you have created the momentum or it’s creating you. – Annie Lennox
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by ‘real life’; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is ‘real’. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I found the most difficult thing when you became successful – when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year – that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it. – Bob Newhart
When I was new, I didn’t know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes. – Aamir Khan
Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there’s a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself. – Al Pacino
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that. – Channing Tatum
