Fleeting Victory Quotes

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. The minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. And no one calls you up the next day to say, 'So sorry you didn't win,' or 'You looked gorgeous - nothing. If you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

Coalitions, though successful, have always found that their triumph has been brief.

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

What's happening right now, this month, I check in and go, 'Hey. You are at the top of a wave right now. Look around and enjoy it because it's not going to stay,' ... The wave goes away. It does not dictate how good I am or my worth. It's just the way it happens.

Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory... There are no permanent victories.