Top 1200 Success Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Ibushi isn't going anywhere. He's staying with me, and I support his success 100%. But we will continue our success as the Golden Lovers, both as a tag team and as single performers.

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

I'm not gonna fall. I'm tired of falling. I'm tired of seeing our people fall. I don't believe in failure. It's what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn't about money. Success isn't about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

There's Sia and 5 Seconds of Summer but that's sort of it, nobody from Australia really has success in America, and to have a song go so well on radio, you start to have success and you think, 'Oh God, I don't want to lose that!'

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents and their blessings are more than enough for one to reach success. I believe it as my success mantra.

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

I know a good story from a bad story. But when you have a really good story and they make it bad, I'll say to my wife, "Oh, tonight, I'm going to enjoy watching television because I did great, and wait until you see this." And then, they put it on and it's like - oh, that's not so good. They are fake news.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)