Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding. ”

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart. ”

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better! ”

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act. ”

Nothing makes me happier than for a woman to come up to me saying, 'I started exercising, and I lost weight, and I got a new man,' and you know, I get chills thinking about it. It's my purpose; I feel like I found my purpose. ”

When my kids were young, we used to go to a place called The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Houston. It was an African-American bookstore where they sold paintings, but they also had a room that was an all-purpose center. If you wanted to have a dance recital or anything that was related to the community activities, you could have it there. ”

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show her ankles to to get that job? ”

Does Obama create confusion on purpose? ”

With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information. ”

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic. ”