Top 1200 Success Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

Success is not success without a successor.

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

In life, success begets success.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically.

I've had a lot of success by myself, but it's not good when you can't go and accomplish things as a team and have success as a team.

I look at the story and see what I have got to do in the film. Sometimes the story is great, set-up is good but there isn't much for you to do. I don't want to do that.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

I have two parents who are brilliant storytellers. The art of developing a story and nurturing a story was present in my household from the day I was born.

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

I think success breeds success.

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data.

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

You look at success and thank God and the fans for the success. It's why I always feel indebted to the fans.

Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting.

To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

I don't know if somehow success has made me conservative. With every passing year and with every success, I get more aware of the responsibility on my shoulders.

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

I'm still committed to the success of the U.K. and the belief of the strong intelligence and passion and determination of the British people. I'm a strong believer of their long-term historical success.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

Once you have success, you have to maintain success.

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.