Sam Levenson Quotes

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

I'm a believer in starting from the bottom.

I started with nothing. Zero.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

When I started at Boca, as well as when I got to the national team, I felt it was the top of the mountain, but they turned me around and I had to start from scratch.

You don't get anything easy when you come from a big band and you go and start another one. You learn real fast that, 'Wow! I went from the top of the mountain to all the way back to the bottom, and I've gotta start over.'

'Mr. Majnu' is just my way of saying that I am trying to start off from the basics.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

Everyone starts from a raw stage at some point of time.

There are superstars around us who have achieved so much in their career. I am not even five percent of that. I have a long way to go.

I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!

For me, I don't want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Nothing would have been accomplished if I didn't start in Newfoundland.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.

It's extremely humbling to look around the astronaut office, see how much experience there is, see how many lessons there are to learn and it's truly starting at square one.

When you get to Hollywood, you have to start from zero, whatever you've done before.

Now I am seen as a successful cricketer, but the fact is that I have had more failure than success.

The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

I have been fortunate to have worked with immensely talented writers and directors who have had faith in me. There's been very little hard work but a lot of learning. I have learnt from each of my characters, and I think that's rather amazing.

It's not like I was just dropped onto a snowboard and I was able to go 15 feet into the air. There was a lot of hard work that came with it. That's something that people don't really notice sometimes and the amount of sacrifice my family made.