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We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. -- Douglas Booth
People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing. -- Jill Sobule
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure. -- Judd Nelson
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. -- Larry Elder
I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. -- Salma Hayek
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. -- Dale Carnegie
Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing. -- Robert Osborne
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. -- Matthew Perry
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. -- Annabelle Selldorf
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor? -- Ian Mckellen
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. -- Louisa May Alcott
Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs. -- Thalia
It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming. -- John Sexton
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you. -- Riz Ahmed
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means. -- Paul Feig
I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. -- Craig Venter
People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant. -- Jennifer Jason Leigh
My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children. -- Arthur Lewis
Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. -- Guy Oseary
In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age. -- Adam Carolla
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. -- Theodore Roosevelt
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. -- James Dyson
Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it. -- Napoleon Hill
Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. -- Andy Gibb
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success. -- Dan Buettner
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing! -- Ralph W. Gerard
We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are. -- Norman Jewison
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people. -- Isabel Allende
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. -- Daphne du Maurier
Success came to us at an age where we could enjoy it. We went through a lot of hard times, so we appreciate success all the more now. -- Matt Lucas
For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early! -- Akshay Kumar
People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life. -- Paul Downs Colaizzo
The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them. -- Thomas Berry

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