“Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.” ImportantRealMovingHouseOpinionSuccessfulHonestNew YorkAgentsBeing SuccessfulAggressivePublishingAspirePublishing House Author:John Lescroart
“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
“I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.” PeopleThinkingWayKindMayArtDifferentFilmInterestingOpinionSuccessfulDialogueDifferent WaysMost Interesting Author:Lily Cole
“Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.” WellsPersonsOpinionSuccessfulCommunicationDependsSuccessful Communication Author:Kenya Hara
“Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.” PeopleIfsWantYearsLooksWholeGamesMistakeOpinionSuccessfulCriticsBitterBeing SuccessfulControversialDiplomaOdditiesTop 10Bitter People Author:Paul Stanley
“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” IfsThinkingShouldLongEyeRunningBeliefTermOpinionTeachPracticeSuccessfulFailingSucceedCriticismMercyEssenceIndependentInvestingAverageReputationLong TermInvestorsBehaviourWorldlyEccentricUnsuccessfulUnconventionalIndependent ThinkingRashnessWorldly Wisdom Author:John Maynard Keynes
“In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.” WantWritingImportantBookUnderstandingOpinionAudienceSuccessfulMarketingBeing SuccessfulTargetComponentsTarget Audience Author:John Locke
“If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.” IfsKnowsWantFactsSidesDifferencesNumbersOpinionSuccessfulBeing Successful Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.” NeedsOpinionSuccessfulPossibilityElectionCleanFollowingFundingArizonaMaine Author:Russ Feingold
“The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldHas BeensSelfReasonSchoolViewsTalkingOpinionSuccessfulTakenSelf EsteemEsteemReason WhyNo ReasonPromotion Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays