1960s Success Quotes

#1. All through the 1960s, success was determined by birth: which house or which last name you were born into. But over the next couple of decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, success was determined by education. Now, thankfully, talent has been given its own berth,

Raghu Ram

#2. I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

Julia Stiles

#3. It is the duty of a Saint of God to gain all the influence he can on this earth, and to use every particle of that influence to do good.

Brigham Young

#4. Beauty is as beauty is. It is no more complicated than that. The moment you try to understand some things is the moment you break the spell.

Stuart Ayris

#5. And I was stuck here at Warrior Freaks R Us.

Jennifer Estep

#6. I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

ASAP Rocky

#7. I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Isabel Sanford

#8. Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

Elizabeth George

#9. Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

Ezra Cornell

#10. I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

Daryl Hall

#11. We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others' pain and loss.

Neil Gaiman

#12. It wasn't a romance; they were too young for that. Theo did not know of a single thirteen-year-old boy in his class who admitted to having a girlfriend.

John Grisham