“I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.” FirstsShowsFeltRolesAudienceSuccessfulHeardModelsTheaterAccomplishmentRole ModelsApplauseSense Of AccomplishmentLancasterSeesaw Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.” PeopleThinkingMightSuccessfulStupidMusic IsModelsAvailableBuyingBeing SuccessfulStupid PeopleSubscription Author:Steve Jobs
“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.” MenTodayFormRealizingViewsRolesSuccessfulStudentsLuckyModelsFemaleVictimMeetingsAbsenceIdeologyProfessorsRole ModelsRebelOppressorsSeductive Author:Camille Paglia
“The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.” IfsYoungTurnsFictionSuccessfulModelsAdultsWinnerOnlineUsers Book:You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto Source: You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
“Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.” JobsCoursesSoundCareersSuccessfulModelsPicksRejectionIronicPick Yourself Up Author:Erin O'Connor
“Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.” MeanPersonsOpportunitySuccessfulBehaviorModelsWeightManagementLifestylePermanentLife ChangingFamily And FriendsArenaReally MeanGreat OpportunityPermanent Change Author:Francis Collins
“After I got disciplined I got introduced to football and then after that everything just took off for me. I had a lot of role models: the teachers, the coaches. Watching them give so much to so many students so they can be successful in life basically just ingrained in me that I think it's more gratifying for me to give back and than just to receive.” ThinkingGivingRolesSuccessfulTeacherStudentsFootballModelsCoachesBeing SuccessfulRole ModelsGiving Back Author:Jerry Rice
“Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.” PeopleHomeJobsBoysSuccessfulModelsNewspapersRetirementFeedingModelingElderlyCashiersRetirement Homes Author:Kathy Ireland
“There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.” ThinkingMenWantYoungChoicesAsksEnemySuccessfulModelsVictimLovelyHappy LifeYoung WomenGrandchildrenSuccessful Marriage Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsWritingFirstsKindImportantBookShowsOrderFeltKnownSuccessfulStyleParticularReaderRight NowModelsHotWhat You WantAgentsSupposed To BeGenrePublishersModelingBlockbuster Author:Cassandra Clare
“The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to society, any cost to workers. They've got a lot of competition and have influenced people to follow their model through simply providing a model that is so successful at making profits.” PeopleProblemSuccessfulCostModelsLowsCompetitionWorkersProfitCustomersOfferingProvidingBusiness Models Author:Liza Featherstone
“My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.” PeopleHas BeensMadeYoungValuesSportsRolesSuccessfulStudentsMetsModelsAthleteRole ModelsClosestClosest Friends Author:Jennie Finch
“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?” BelieveLooksMomentsBigsFatherWinningI BelieveRolesMorningSuccessfulModelsCommitmentMirrorsCommittedBeing SuccessfulThat MomentRole ModelsEvery MorningGood FriendTeammateTrustworthyGood FatherBeing A Good FriendGood Role ModelsInspirational CommitmentBeing A Good Father Author:LeBron James
“I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.” LooksWantedSuccessWinningParentRolesSuccessfulLuckyModelsRole Models Author:Derek Jeter
“My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.” MatterHelpingFeelingsMotivationalResponsibilityRolesSuccessfulBasketballModelsHelping OthersRole ModelsGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Kevin Johnson
“Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug story. There's just her and her fame and her beauty. But Anna Nicole created that template of somebody that you'd want to watch on reality TV. Somebody that you'd want to invite into your home or as a role model, in terms of beauty and lifestyle and glamour.” WantKindStoriesHomeRealityTermRolesWatchesSuccessfulTvsDrugFameModelsTragedyLifestyleRole ModelsInvitesGlamourAnnaKimReality TvArchetypeHer BeautyNicole Author:Margaret Cho
“I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.” ThinkingWorldTryingTermSpaceVisionSuccessfulEconomicModelsWesternAlternativesTurkeysAdvocating Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.” LooksRunningCompanyRolesIssuesSuccessfulDesignMomModelsMy MomGenderEmpoweringBeing SuccessfulRole ModelsSenateCeoEmpowering WomenTaking ChargeDefine SuccessNew Company Author:Stephanie McMahon
“When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.” StatesChanceUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulHeardModels Author:Waris Dirie
“I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.” ThinkingWorldWayBeautifulAttentionCompanySuccessfulModelsAdvertisingGoogleWorld HistoryProfitableMerchantsIdealisticBusiness Models Author:Tim Wu
“Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.” WorldMeanEndsRolesTeachSuccessfulEnvironmentModelsLuckAccidentsAwfulRole ModelsReceiving Author:Michael Lewis
“In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensShowsAmericaBlackPoorSuccessfulPlayerConditionsMovementBasketballMusicianModelsBlack PeopleRiceBasketball PlayerOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very dangerous because then it could be a model to other movements and groups in neighboring countries. And gradually there could be an erosion from within by indigenous forces of American domination of the region.” CountryForceSocialSuccessfulGroupsEconomicDangerousMovementDevelopmentModelsRegionsVietnamDominationIndigenousEconomic DevelopmentErosion Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.” WayWealthPayCareersSuccessfulCollegeLuckyModelsLoanSuccessful Career Author:Padma Lakshmi
“Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.” YearsPersonsSuccessfulPiecesModelsThirdsPainfulMythEditorsMerchandiseThird Person Author:Jessica Lange
“Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.” StatesMovingSuccessfulAchieveEasierWeaponsMassModelsDestructionIraqIranSyriaIrresponsibleWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionLibya Author:Ariel Sharon
“All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.” EnoughCompanyCreativeSuccessfulModelsBusiness ModelsNew Business Author:Gary Hamel