Becoming successful Quote by John Gardner Download Open image ““More people fail at becoming successful businessmen than fail at becoming artists.”” — John Gardner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming successful
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“To be a truly creative company, you must start things that might fail.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists. — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
If an artist can manage his career, well, that is half the battle to becoming successful. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
“Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !” — Brahmananda Patra Copy Share Image
“A successful creative career is always built on successful creative failures.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“A company’s success can contribute to its financial and cultural downfall.” — Becca Spradlin, Lead On Mission Copy Share Image
“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice is virtually… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but his point… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it,… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“In today’s entrepreneurial time, a brand with a human side has more chances of becoming successful than its counterparts.” — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
I'm in this wave with Maddie & Tae and RaeLynn and Mickey Guyton and Cam. We're all kind of finding our niches and becoming… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Sometimes in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.As you become successful,you will need a great deal… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before… — Niklas Zennstrom Copy Share Image
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been. — Barry Zito Copy Share Image
Nobody said that becoming successful would ever be an easy task by any means. One must be willing to fail and fail time again… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image