Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

The most successful people are so original.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

I'm insanely proud of every single one of my credits until the people who created the shows are dead.