“By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.” PeopleLooksCountryKidsOpportunityPresidentSuccessfulTakenOfficeClimateClimate ChangeHookProsperousCrooks Author:Barack Obama
“Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.” MayKidsSchoolBrainSuccessfulDrinkSmokeOccasionsPotSurgeonsMartiniStonersBrain Surgeons Author:Bill O'Reilly
“The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.” IfsThinkingGivingHas BeensI CanKidsSuccessfulToolsComplimentQuarterbackBlake Author:Terry Hoeppner
“I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid in school. I was coming into a situation I didn't really know much about, and now, after a couple of years, the character's kind of mellowed and gotten comfortable working at the command center and very comfortable with his troops. What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended. The SG-1 franchise has been so successful for the network, that they always want to keep it open, an option to do it again in some way, whether that's a movie or a series, or whatever.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantYearsFirstsKindHas BeensCharacterShowsKidsSchoolSituationSuccessfulCoupleComfortableSeriesCommandTroops Author:Beau Bridges
“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.” PeopleSelfCareKidsTodayWantedNextSexSleepAbilityLevelsDealsKnowingSuccessfulRecordsStreetsSkillsAngelDeterminedDustMealsNot KnowingPeersHomelessNo MoneyLive For TodaySleeping In Author:Joe Budden
“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsMenWantWritingChildrenStillsMatterKidsDiesCoursesChanceSuccessfulTakenHe ManHigherTenSuicideListsNineCommitBelovedNervesInfluentialAnthology Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.” ShowsKidsEnergySuccessfulTvsOffersBusyTv Shows Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.” WantWellsLittlesStatesKidsWantedOpportunityStuffBitsSuccessfulToo MuchLittle BitGainsFelicity Author:Keri Russell
“Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.” HumorKidsSchoolFunnyCoursesSecretSuccessfulComedySixWorshipHigh SchoolScaredUnhappyEnd TimesSpend TimeMe AloneOutcastHumoristsAlone TimeHopes Up Author:Bruce McCall
“I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.” ThinkingKidsFatherSecretSuccessfulIntenseSuccessful Women Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“I feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.” FeelsWellsKindHas BeensStillsStatesKidsAbleWantedGuyActorsGoneSuccessfulCrazyGratefulEightAll KindsTorontoAppreciative Author:Mike Myers
“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.” YearsFirstsLooksTwoHumorKidsFunnyFatherSuccessfulDadAbsolutesParentingMy DadTwo YearsFatherhoodFathers DayFather SonYour DadBeing A FatherGreat FatherBeing A DadHappy First Fathers DayBest FatherFathers Day InspirationalFunny Fathers DayFatheringGreat DadFunny FatherFunny Happy Fathers DayLove My DadDad LoveFathers Day PoemsI Love My DadChristian Fathers DayFathers Day CardFunny Dad Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a great manager who keeps our coffers topped off, and we give ourselves a sensible wage with a view to having three fallow years between records. We always make sure we have enough money to make a record and not be pressured time-wise.” ThinkingGivingYearsEnoughKidsThreeViewsSuccessfulRecordsWiseBandManagersGreat MenSensibleElbowsPressuredGreat Managers Author:Guy Garvey
“When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible.” GivingWellsCountryKidsVisionPovertySuccessfulStudentsFormerNeighborhoodMexicoKoreaPhilippinesFormer Students Author:Rafe Esquith
“We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.” NeedsShouldHumansKidsGirlSuccessfulFocusOne ThingPopulationEducatedEducateFewerRoutesReducingHuman PopulationEducated Women Author:Bill Nye
“My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.” IfsWantKidsFatherPaySuccessfulStreetsWillingBaseballBeing SuccessfulPay The Price Author:Lance Berkman
“As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.” ThinkingDreamWould BeKidsSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulBeing CoolI Had A Dream Author:Ben Stiller
“If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.” IfsImportantKidsProcessResultsSuccessfulFocusBeing Successful Author:Nick Saban