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Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.
Sep 10, 2025
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.
Write drunk; edit sober.
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
Most saints live to regret their career choice.
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything.
The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.
It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.
Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.
Making anything a success rests with people and commitment; strong will to always do the best, confidence in one another.. and absolute determination.
The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"
Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.
What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.