Achiever Quote by Carson Ellis Download Open image “I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.” — Carson Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achiever Art Art is Paid Success
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty :… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to… — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life. — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them,… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
“Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
“Take the challenge of your life. Reach out to your goals. There is no limit to what you can achieve.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Achievers are those who have redefined impossible, changing what can't be done into a work in progress. ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
