What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we'd sold 35 million records as a band, and I'd had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success.
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.
Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.
The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.
