Success Criteria Quotes

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

Sacks shouldn't be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.

Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're only going to call managers who have won a trophy any good, then basically, you have four or five.

It doesn't really count as a great year if the team is not doing well.

It's better to do a film that works.

If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I wouldn't think I was still successful.

I think it is always a success when you win the title.

I don't think I'll ever tell you I had a great performance in a loss. That doesn't make sense to me, to be honest.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

All I am looking for is a fine combination of critical and commercial acclaim. Whether conventional or unconventional - does not matter.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

How does one measure the success of a museum?