Pastoral Resources

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Fame and success are very different things.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?