Knute Rockne Quotes

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

Democracy and elections can be a double-edged sword … democratic competition and elections increase the politicians’ appetite for gaining public support by pleasing the public, which is sometimes led by emotional motives and short-sighted considerations. Populist politics can sometimes be driven by a lack of knowledge and is not always conducive to the real interest …

Poor, desperate creature; he wants an audience … the people won’t turn out to hear him.

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don't ever allow ourselves that possibility.

I just lost interest in performing.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.

To be honest, it is boring to talk about winning.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.