“Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsActionMotivationKnowingSuccessfulProduceBeing SuccessfulFollow ThroughThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayGivingPersonsDoeSoulCountrySuccessChoicesAsksRoomsKnowingSuccessfulMinutesMy SoulEveningFreedom Of ChoiceRanking Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“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
“Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.” HappensKnowingSuccessfulComfortableBeing SuccessfulNot Knowing Author:Susan Wojcicki
“Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.” ShouldKnowingSuccessfulImportanceLuckInvestingPatternsFirmConsistentComparisonSuspiciousRandomnessMirages Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsBelieveMayArtCareCertainLiteratureI BelieveSoundSidesKnowingSuccessfulToo MuchStrangeSeriousFreezeDealerCaring Too MuchLove Literature Author:Andy Warhol
“My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.” IfsWritingFirstsBookIdeasStoriesLastsSpiritWaitingMy OwnKnowingSuccessfulWrittenRiskSellingMagazinesNo IdeaDawnEditorsRebelWithin YouTraveledInvitationsIntroductionCongoHostageGetting StartedSiberia Author:Jeffery Taylor