“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
“I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.” MeanThreeRoomsSuccessfulFineVideoApartmentCouches Author:Sarah Silverman
“Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.” WantNeedsTogetherGamesCan DoRoomsStepsSuccessfulWhat You WantBeing SuccessfulConvenienceStep Up Author:Les Brown
“It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayValuesChoicesFatherParentRoomsLeaderCareersPovertySuccessfulTvsCallingProgramHollywoodImportanceLifestyleNewspapersBrownPrimeImmoralMurphyCareer WomenSuccessful CareerPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle
“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!” IfsWritingHas BeensFeelingsLightHoursDarkMy OwnRoomsSuccessfulTeachingHavensSticksFingersPrisonerExposedClothingsPlatesElderlyDark RoomFaustBastille Author:Bret Harte
“This country you're sitting in right now was not built on love, hugs, time-outs and trophies you didn't earn. This country was built on shame, humiliation and striving to be better. By the way, if you're in this room right now and you're successful... you didn't get there because someone loved you too much or gave you too many hugs or you got a trophy when you lost. You did it because at one point in your life, somebody turned to you and said you're a loser, and in that second, you decided to bust your ass to make them choke on that sentence... Or, your parents gave you the money.” IfsWaySaidCountryLostParentRoomsSuccessfulToo MuchRight NowSittingBuiltDecidedShameStriveSentencesAssLoserHugHumiliationOne LoveChokeTrophiesLost You Author:Christopher Titus