Stephen Birmingham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.
-- Stephen Birmingham

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What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.
-- Stephen Birmingham

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A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
-- Stephen Birmingham

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I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.
Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have ...
Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt ***** shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

Stephen Birmingham famous quotes

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