By his own admission, Carson's remarkable hand-eye coordination allowed him to soar as a surgeon, and he used that success to build a lucrative reputation as a purveyor of advice for young and old. His book for young people is titled 'You Have a Brain.'
Trump has made claims about himself - about his charitable giving, his business success, even the size of the crowd at his inauguration - that are not supported by the facts.
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.
There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.
I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn't go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won't even support other women. They end up competing over things that don't make sense - like how we look.
I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a decade. And everything that didn't happen during that time just motivated me to do better.
Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.
I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.
We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.
I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.
I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
Customer Development changes almost every aspect of startup behavior, performance, metrics, and, as often as not, success potential.
I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.
One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.
