Gertrude Stein Quotes

I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

You really need to believe that you are on to something important.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

Similarly, I think I'm lucky that I've never had a crisis about whether the only reason I'm successful is because I'm crazy hot. It's not something that crosses my mind.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

I don't think labels are as important as results.

Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

I talked to people that I'd done theater with, older actors and stuff. There's a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they're good, or they wouldn't be in it. Why do you think that you're good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that's really what it came down to.

Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Everyone in the top of their fields is pouring everything they have into this, which is why it was such a massive undertaking and why filming was extended. It's not because things are going badly. It's because they're so massive and it's so complicated and we want to get it right. We're not just phoning it in. We're taking our time with it because it's really important.

After all, what was more important, in the end, than love?

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.