“I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.” WayLooksAchieveFameDeserveLifetimeHousehold Author:Chaka Khan
“As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.” CountryYoungProcessRolesSuccessfulEconomicAchieveExamplePossibilityFameEssentialsElementsRewardsGenderDedicatedGender Roles Author:Lydia Sigourney
“Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.” SocialRoomsAchieveFameExpectedMotiveVisitorsCanonIntrovertedProustCork Book:What Price Fame? Source: What Price Fame?
“That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.” KnowsNeedsFeelsImportantSelfValuesPoorMoneyKnowingAchieveFameCommitmentPursuitSelf WorthSecureDedicationTraitsDirt Author:Jennifer Hudson
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.” RealityWantedTroubleAchieveTelevisionFameThese DaysProgrammes Author:M.C. Beaton
“I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.” StillsDealsAchieveFame Author:Robert Pattinson
“Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.” WorldWayRealProblemEnjoyAbilityDealsAcceptingClearAchieveThis WorldGreatnessFameOvercomingDifficultyExtraordinarySatisfactionObstaclesAbsenceThrownSailingAttainmentVoyagesReal SuccessAchieve GreatnessEnjoy Your Work Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.” WantKindImportantMatterAchieveProudFameSingingNo Matter WhatImportant Things Author:John Legend
“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.” FactsGovernmentAmericaCertainDemocracyAchieveTalentProduceNeededFameMessagesProgramFolksDefinitionsEqualityEnvyRageTensionContradictoryRelentlessImmuneEnviousForgedAccessibilityGovernment ProgramsOlympusTinkering Author:Florence King
“I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.” ThinkingReasonStarsSimpleAchieveFamePopulationExceptionMovie StarFractions Author:Augusten Burroughs
“Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.” UseEarthLyingWaterAirAchieveFameSmokeStayingFoamQuilts Author:Dante Alighieri
“Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.” CertainDifficultLevelsAchieveTypeFame Author:Famke Janssen
“What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.” PeopleMeanI CanFormNightWhiteAudienceAchieveRocksFieldsJudgingKingsFameJazzCreditInventionTitlesHallsRock N RollRock And RollRoyalRoyaltyHall Of FameRock And Roll Hall Of Fame Author:Ishmael Reed
“I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.” AbleWantedGoalAchieveFameBunch Author:Boris Kodjoe
“Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.” LoveSelfEnoughHelpingCausesForgetLove IsPowerfulSituationEnemyPrinciplesAchieveSelf LoveFameFortuneObligationRulingHostility Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“Through fashion I have shown my interpretation of the competitive spirit by dressing sportsmen and women, choosing to work with both those who are among the world's most renowned athletes and also those who are yet to achieve fame in the arena of sport.” WorldSpiritSportsAchieveFashionFameMen And WomenAthleteInterpretationArenaDressingsSportsmanRenownedCompetitive Spirit Author:Giorgio Armani
“It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.” AbleWantedGoalCompanyAchieveMinesBecomingFameFoundationBunchSetting GoalsTangibleBecoming Famous Author:Boris Kodjoe
“The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.” GoalAttentionSuccessfulAchieveFameBeing The Best Author:Kieran Culkin
“When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.” KindAchieveSubjectsInternetFameAnalysisCartoonNew YorkersOnionsMemesOutliers Author:Nate Silver
“Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.” ThinkingMenWorldWellsUseLife IsCultureGirlFunSocialChallengesJusticeCompassionBoysFeminismAchieveMovementFameMen And WomenResourcesAnd LoveExcitingWell BeingLive LifeProgressiveGreedySocial ChangeVisionariesBoy And GirlOptimalProgressivismJustice And LoveProgressive Movement Author:Bell Hooks
“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.” MenSoulSelfHateAsksWealthSacrificeAchieveFameMurderYour SoulSelf RespectBrutalitySelf Sacrifice Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader