Cindy Sherman Quotes

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Success is somebody else's failure.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

I had my group of friends, and they stayed my group of friends, they were good about that. We all started to succeed at the same time, so that sort of took the curse off it. I didn't have a bunch of people scowling at me and being potentially jealous. I just had good friends who I was able to help, and they helped me. Yet it eventually came to feel debilitating.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.

And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

In my mind jealousy would come with seeing people do something that makes it all look extremely easy when it's not, like artists who can draw better than I can. In college, I was different. I was so hungry that anyone else who was published - I couldn't deal with it.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.