Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 75

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it\'s easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It\'s less chancy than taking a fresh idea.
I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.
 Richard D. Zanuck
Growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
 Charles F. Haanel
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.
 Peggy Noonan
Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.
 Frederick Herzberg
Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
 Al Duncan
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
 Herbert Spencer
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
 Pat Summitt
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.
You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.
Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.
 Charles Barkley
People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
 Jonathan Haidt