“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.” HardHandsEyeCertainFallForgetBehindsPracticeSuccessfulFailingMastersDegreesDenyDrawingPainterHis EyesFacility Author:Walter J. Phillips
“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsDoePainDesireCertainWaitingKnow HowSuccessfulFailingContraryDesperateImpatientObtaining Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.” ImportantCareCertainPaySuccessfulWrittenReadyImportant Words Book:Everybody's Autobiography Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.” IfsFeelsMeanPersonsHappensCertainSocialSuccessfulGainsRelationInstitutionsComplexesActiveComplexityRetirementReally MeanPondsInsistenceSocial InstitutionsWalden Pond Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingCertainParentWomenClassSuccessfulWifeGenerationsMovementMinesParticularBenefitsCookingFeministFedsGood FriendReapSuccessful BusinessBlahFeminist MovementGreat WifeCooking Classes Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.” MenMeanHandsCertainPoliticsProcessEconomySuccessfulPolicyAimPropertyFortunePrivilegeProductionsHeavyLiberalismAcquireJustificationTaxationInheritancePrivate PropertySuccessful Man Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.” IfsLastsCertainEconomySuccessfulPolicyHotSouthRateUnemploymentUnemployment Rate Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.” ThinkingWayTryingCountryCertainLeftSuccessfulHabitDifficultyFranceBeing SuccessfulWay Of Thinking Author:Thomas Sankara