Bob Greene Quotes

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

No matter where you are in the game, no matter how successful you might be, there will always be others out there who are more talented or more beautiful or more connected than you. Get used to it! If you start dwelling on everybody else's genius, it'll become a huge wave of doubt.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

My greatest fear is failure.

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

People who criticise me are just jealous.

Will I be a success? I don't know.

There are so many people around who are unsuccessful in life. They still bother to pinpoint because they think that if they are not able to do anything, they should humiliate those who are doing something.

Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.