“Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.” PeopleMeanWaitingGoalSuccessfulAchieveLimitsFormulasHappiness And Success Author:Shawn Achor
“Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.” DiesSuccessfulHollywoodTricksRepeatsMovieFormulas Author:Gloria Swanson
“I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.” IfsArtFilmGoalSuccessfulRiskStandardsAreasTraditionParadoxFormulasAmbitiousAssociatesDocumentariesCinematicNarrationDidactic Author:Damian Pettigrew
“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.” PeopleWantBlackLevelsSuccessfulRacismHollywoodBeing SuccessfulInternalsExecutivesSexismFormulasBlack PeopleWomanhoodSkinnyPlugs Author:Viola Davis
“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
“I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.” WorldNeedsFeelsLooksKindDifferentRealStoriesBigsMightForceSocialSuccessfulJourneyEmotionalHappeningsInjusticeIntimacyFormulasRelevantOperaDifferent TimesSocial Injustice Author:Jake Heggie
“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).” IfsWould BeBlackWhiteSuccessfulColorPaintingAmountLateAreasColourFormulasDotsBlack Or WhiteSmall Amounts Author:Matthew Collings
“In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.” KnowsMayPersonsProblemNextSuccessfulPsychologyWeekEventsBrokenBeatsAccountsInfiniteLegsRangeFormulasExceptionalNext WeekPredictingBroken Leg Author:Atul Gawande
“Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.” HumansShowsSuccessfulTelevisionElementsFindingsFormulasTelevision ShowsCoca ColaRum Book:A Book Source: A Book