The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.
The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
Success is not something you get out of what you do.
People like me, like Karen Elson and Soo Joo, we're a very specific woman with a very specific look. I think that's also why we last longer. There's no one else like us.
Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.
It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
The real deal is always going to win in the end.
I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
The attempt to combine wisdom with power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.
I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.
Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.
We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Success is more than doing very well for a few. Success is doing right for many.
I was told my style was supposed to give me a short career.
