“I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.” WantedSuccessfulHappenedActivityLuckyEnormousParanormalConsideringBonusBecoming SuccessfulParanormal Activity Author:Oren Peli
“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...” LongHas BeensEndsReasonMotherParentDifficultInterestSuccessfulNiceHappenedLuckyProveLong TimeThe End Of The DayMumLong Time AgoProve MyselfYour Mum Author:Stuart Rose
“Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.” IfsWayMeanWisdomFoundPoliticsGrowthTermPayCompanyEconomySuccessfulHappenedEconomicApproachCommitmentProductionsLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipDeficiencyEconomic SystemsMoraleDividendsFuture GrowthEsops Author:John D. Rockefeller
“But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.” KnowsWould BeSuccessfulHappenedSkating Author:Scott Hamilton
“I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.” IfsMenWayLittlesPersonsSometimesBeautifulGirlCoursesProcessAnswersHalfBoysSuccessfulCuttingHappenedTrainingFeministCarefulGenderMonstersVulnerableNightmareBrutalDeliberateSuggestingChunks Author:Frank Pittman
“The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.” ReasonShowsSuccessfulHappenedJourneyInvitedBourne Author:Matthew Bourne
“I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.” BookFactsSuccessfulWonderfulHappenedBeing Successful Author:Walter Mosley
“Something happened to me and I became really successful at something at a young age, and that stunts you in every other aspect of your life because you feel like that's what you're good at and so that's what you need to stay in.” NeedsFeelsAgeYoungSuccessfulHappenedAspectYoung Age Author:Kristen Stewart
“A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.” LastsGoalSuccessfulHappenedTablesDinnerMeals Author:Laurie David
“It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.” SuccessfulHappenedInnovationExploits Author:Peter Drucker
“I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that's what happened.” IfsWellsTwoMatterFilmFoundSuccessfulHappenedBlessingPhonesBunchSwamps Author:Wes Craven
“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” InspirationalSuccessCreativityEconomyCreativeSuccessfulHappenedPeriodsBest ThingsApplesBeing SuccessfulReplacedCeoBest JobBeginnersLightnessInnovation And BusinessReal JobsFailure In LifeHeavinessDifferent JobsConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityTwo JobsBest Thing That Ever Happened To MeGetting Fired Author:Steve Jobs
“Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.” KnowsFeelsKindRealFeltStuffSuccessfulHappenedHonestFameBeing HonestTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Margaret Cho