If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.
As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections.
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.
I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.
Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm
Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!
Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action. . . The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them. . . not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.
Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.
Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.
Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.
I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.
And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.
I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotionsexperiences. There also just seems to be a certain feelingmood that I respond well to. I feel similarly about the artist Kahimi Karie and the films "An Education" and "Marie Antoinette. " Anything with a strongly and unapologetically feminine point of view I tend to be interested in.
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of an entire wall and entire room. . . . There is no denying that one of the major attractions of these successful large compositions is their structural decorative use in the contemporary scene. . . That these large canvases can be superbly decorative may not be considered complimentary by some of the artists involved.
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.
Get off your ass and do something. All you need is the right inspiration. Anger has fueled me my entire life. It makes me feel good and. . . I'm okay with that. My fear is that my anger will one day make me so damned successful that I'll actually be happy. And then I'll just stop.
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
There's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point. It's like a 90 percent chance for each project that it'll never happen. Every project has about a 10 percent chance of getting made, unless you're like a Quentin Tarantino or somebody who just gets whatever they want to get done. But those are the rare cases.