“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.” PeopleIfsLooksKindArtStillsCultureForgetSuccessfulFrontsFieldsArt IsStandingContemporarySaneEngaging Author:Tino Sehgal
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.” ThinkingGivingMayIdeasFactsWould BeMovingPoliticsTermViewsNumbersLeaderOpinionPowerDemocracySuccessfulFieldsPoliticianTasksMajorityAcceptedContradictionCurrencyFramework Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.” WellsJobsGivenEmotionSuccessfulFieldsEmotionalStrongerDetermineHandleOur RelationshipEmotional Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.” IfsThinkingWantQualitySuccessfulFieldsParticularKeysPerseveranceBeing SuccessfulEndeavorPassion And SuccessDeep Passion Author:George Lucas
“Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.” PeopleIfsLooksSeemsMotivationalIndividualBeliefSuccessfulFieldsSucceedCommitmentStrongestSuccessful PeopleInseparableGreat Success Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“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
“There are many different types of people that end up coming to me and saying 'Yeah I want to cook.' Some of them successful, some not. There's no one formula, but if I get someone coming through the backdoor who knows that they want to get into the cooking field, they feel this inside-out love for it, this attraction to it, that person is an awful lot easier to work with.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsPersonsDifferentEndsSuccessfulFieldsTypeEasierYeahCookingAttractionAwfulCooksFormulasBackdoor Author:Paul Rankin
“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.” KindGovernmentPoliticalPassionForceSuccessfulFieldsExerciseOffersOfficeRedLustSatisfiedChiefsTitlesFollyCarpetDominionMotorcycleRed CarpetPublic OfficeLust For PowerPower Over Others Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.” SuccessfulFieldsStrategyGuidanceExperts Author:Jack Canfield
“The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.” MatterFactsForgetResultsSecretCareersSuccessfulFieldsPerceptionRelationPublic RelationsSuccessful Career Author:Jack McDevitt
“If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life, no matter what it is, whether it's sports or in other fields, you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do.” IfsWantPersonsMatterDreamPassionSportsRealizingSuccessfulFieldsPositionNo Matter WhatHardestYour DreamsBeing SuccessfulTake TimeBasketball MotivationMvpBasketball Success Author:Stephen Curry
“When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing...as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.” WorldStillsFilmActorsSuccessfulMissingFieldsFameAspectEntertainmentSecular Author:Chuck Norris