The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.
I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I'm being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.
Long hours don't necessarily mean success.
One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.
I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won't define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline.
I think the success of any brand reboot is to acknowledge the heritage but to embrace and interpret it in a way that makes it relevant and wearable to the modern consumer.
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.
Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.
