“Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.” FactsProblemFatherFeltViewsRolesSuccessfulComfortableAdmireUncomfortableAlsGorePrivate Sector Author:Andrew Sullivan
“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.” PeopleMindFirstsArtRealBodySpiritIndividualFeltVoiceTeachSuccessfulMovementPoetBirthUltimateImportanceAddUniversityFulfillmentSubtlePoetry IsLastingWorks Of ArtRepublicWorthwhileScholarLockedSensibilityPrimalUnnoticedFirst Things First Author:Guy Davenport
“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
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.” PeopleIfsWritingMayLightFeltCan DoAbilityEffortQualitySuccessfulParticularBottomBeing SuccessfulRecallsTemperature Author:Maxwell Perkins
“As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.” FirstsFeltSuccessful Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I had horrible moment at the end of a very successful day, where I realized I just felt nothing about it and I didn't care. And I had that fear that I would, because I was successful at it, that I would be there 20, 30 years down the road, doing this job and just not caring about what I did.” YearsEndsMomentsWould BeCareJobsFeltSuccessfulCaringI RealizedHorribleDown The RoadNot CaringSuccessful Day Author:Dan Povenmire
“It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.” FeelsMadePassionFeltInterestInterestingNovelSuccessfulWithout Love Author:Anthony Trollope
“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.” FeelsWritingWellsLastsThreeFeltDifficultNumbersSuccessfulFiveMinutesListsFive MinutesDifficult Days Author:Jacqueline Briskin
“Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsFeltBlackSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulApologizingSyndromesOutspokenPittsburgh Author:Dave Parker
“I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.” KindFeltSuccessfulEnjoyedOutsidersOld Days Author:Nick Lowe
“The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.” WantKindIdeasWould BeFilmFeltSuccessful Author:Ryan Phillippe
“When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.” PurposeFeltConsciousnessSuccessfulFansChangedPressureIntention Author:Lady Gaga
“What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.” EnoughHomeFoundFeltLove IsActingMorningSuccessfulHairAspectMajorityI RealizedFortunateChairsMakeupCostumesBecoming SuccessfulLater In LifeHair And Makeup Author:Angelina Jolie
“I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was ready to be a professional writer. Then I befriended a number of successful professional writers and realized that none of them ever felt ready. After that I decided I might as well stop waiting to feel ready and just get started.” FeelsWellsEnoughMomentsMightWould BeFeltWaitingNumbersSuccessfulReadyDecidedI Realized Author:Cassandra Clare
“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 realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.” PeopleKindHelpingWinningFeltSuccessfulPlayerTeamFieldsEmpathyStandingRealizationBeing SuccessfulLiberatingStanding Down Author:Oliver Kahn
“I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'” IfsFeltSuccessfulSuccessful Marriage Author:Willie Aames
“I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It can damage successful writers by giving them an exalted sense of what they've done, and it can crush less successful writers by infecting them with envy and malice at an early stage in their careers.” GivingImportantDoneFeltCommunityCareersSuccessfulStageEnvyDamageCrushMaliceExaltedDetrimental Author:Pankaj Mishra
“That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.” ShouldHas BeensGovernmentFormFeltSupportSuccessfulPeriodsUnderstoodShould HaveOriginalsExperimentsEstablishmentShould Have BeenPropsUndecided Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterFeltCasesSuccessfulLike YouToughAdversityPreparedBrilliant Author:Bobby Bowden
“When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.” FeltSuccessfulPressure Author:Lady Gaga