It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
We need to have more women founders stepping up to kind of own their own story and ask for what they want and tell success stories and start really building confidence that these stories are out there.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.
You always have these moments when projects are over when you wonder if you'll ever work again. In the end, what it comes down to is that it's a fine line between becoming too enamored of your own success and maintaining the confidence to do what you do and do it well. That's the line every actor, if they're lucky, has to walk.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
Together we knew that we could have success.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
We made too many expensive movies trying to offset the loss of the 'LOTR' income. There was a lot of pressure to re-create that franchise, which turned out to be unhealthy for us, because it's such a once-in-a-lifetime success. It would be like trying to re-create 'Avatar' over and over again.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We've provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one.
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Excess is success.
Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
Success is the sum of details.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.
