Baltasar Gracian Quotes

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

If you're going to preach the American dream ..., there's got to be something there at the end of the road.

To win the World Cup, you win it one bit at a time.

I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.

Just take one small victory at a time.

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.

I promise that no one wants to deliver a winner to Fulham supporters more than I do.

I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

It’s not enough to wish, it’s not enough to dream, it’s not enough to promise. We must do.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.