Top 1200 Success Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.

Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles.

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

They always compare my 'Crazy Story' to Meek's 'Tony Story.'

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid is different than for another kid.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

When you accomplish certain levels of success in a number, you want that number to always be a part of you. In a way, you're bringing that success with you when you're wearing it.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

I've enjoyed success and I feel like I've been a big part of success - not just involved in winning trophies but involved heavily.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.