Pastoral Resources

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Her success is my success.

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.