Stephen J. Cannell Quotes

I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

Always I believe that I can play better. But I am happy.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.