Lynda Obst Quotes

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

All things are only transitory.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.

Time destroys everything.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Time is not kind to everything.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Every winning streak will have to end sometime.