I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is. – William Boyd
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it. – Saul Leiter
You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It’s a trade-off. – Solange Knowles
So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama’s No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close. – Thomas P.M. Barnett
No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, ‘You’re dumb!’ over and over. That’s not what Broadway’s about. – Trey Parker
Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs – successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that’s as it should be. – Walter Kirn
I always overwrite – really awful, long bits of script – and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that’s a successful story. – Shaun Tan
Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, ‘This is exactly what I’d love to be involved with,’ and following that gut reaction was hugely successful. – Tony Hawk
Also, if you’re in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time. – Treat Williams
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful. – Wayne Gretzky
So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. – Susan Sontag
If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I’ve seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don’t see it as a deficiency. – Yossi Vardi
When I first did ‘The Fast and the Furious’, I didn’t want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, ‘Why would you rush to do a sequel – just because your first film is successful?’ – Vin Diesel
I’ve been very successful at selling my things, but I’ve also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years. – Stephen J. Cannell
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion. – Tom Cruise
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn’t successful – isn’t even a city, really – unless it can lay claim to being ‘vibrant.’ – Thomas Frank
I’m just working hard because I know that’s the way you can get things done. That’s how I’ve been able to be successful. – Torrey Smith
Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger? – William Lipscomb
If you’re a musician or actor, you know that if you’re successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You’re prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer? – Shawn Fanning
That’s a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music. – Zara Larsson
We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech. – Stef Wertheimer
One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is what the PC revolution was about, to the creation of software services. These are services that ultimately, if they are successful, will require competencies of operation, of scale, and the like. – Tim O’Reilly
