Transient Success Quotes

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

Every time I reach a major milestone in my career, I expect it to make more of a difference than it does, and I guess that means I'm in the sport for the right reasons. I'm not in it to win it because winning can only last for so long, and it's a very fickle thing, sport.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.

I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

You're only as good as your last pass.

The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.

When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'

I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want to be too blasé about it.

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.

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.

Coalitions, though successful, have always found that their triumph has been brief.

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.