„I felt I had I worked hard enough and I felt confident I had done the right kind of work and the right amount of work. But when you talk of preparations, the measure of success is whether it works or not. In that area, I failed completely. I did not stay the course. When you hit the right spot, the sweet spot, it feels great and you feel the preparations have been ideal, but I never got there.“

„Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.“

—  John Nash American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928 - 2015

As quoted in A Beautiful Mind, (2001); also cited in Quantum Phaith (2011), by Jeffrey Strickland, p. 197
2000s

„On the second album I worked with a lot of people that I worked with on the Metamorphosis album. And when I worked on Metamorphosis I was so nervous and shy about going into the studio and working with people, they eventually toward the end made me feel so comfortable and so secure with myself. I loved working with them. I have a great relationship with them. I talk to them [all the time]. When we started talking about the second album, I was like, "I want to work with all the same people." They knew what was going on in my life, what I was going through. I would call them and say, "I feel like this right now. I want a song about this…" I never really felt like I had enough time to write my whole album and I don't know if I'm secure enough with myself to do that. But I wrote three songs on the album, one I wrote with my sister. It's so personal and these people really got what I was going through and how I feel inside. I think that's what makes it good and that's what makes me relate to them.“

—  Hilary Duff American actress and singer 1987

Murray, Rebecca. "Hilary Duff Talks About 'Raise Your Voice'" http://movies.about.com/od/raiseyourvoice/a/raisehd092804.htm. About.com. Retrieved October 25 2006.
On Hilary Duff (2004).

„Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.“

—  Mae Jemison American doctor and NASA astronaut 1956

Then & Now: Dr. Mae Jemison http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/07/cnn25.tan.jemison/, CNN, 19 June 2005

„When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again.“

—  Rachel Gibson American writer 1961

Zdroj: Tangled Up In You

„You might look at someone successful and think they got lucky – a case of being in the right place at the right time perhaps? The truth is, every piece of good fortune is the result of hours, or even years, of hard work and preparation.“

—  Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE

„I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.“

—  Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968

„I'm very happy as I am. I realise that I made sacrifices early in my career and that it was hard on my relationships because, when I am working, I am very focused and it isn't easy, when you have been in the studio all day, to say to someone, 'I'll meet up with you later on.' I learned that it was necessary to be dedicated and put work first. But, at the same time, it was a wonderful feeling to be successful at doing something I loved.“

—  Enya Irish singer, songwriter, and musician 1961

Women's Weekly interview (2006)

„Right from when I was an amateur, I loved kickboxing. I used to feel sad because the game had no sponsors.“

—  Moses Golola Kick Boxer, Eating Champion 1980

Daily Monitor http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/How-Golola-moses-made-kickboxing-famous/-/691232/1745654/-/uu6p2e/-/index.html

„It is normal that I have done something significant and so have other artists. I have taken my work in such a way that it has been a success. But that is not the only thing which matters you see…it's the work which matters.“

—  S. H. Raza Indian artist 1922 - 2016

„I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.“

—  Cheryl Strayed, kniha Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Zdroj: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

„I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.“

—  Chris Cornell American singer-songwriter, musician 1964 - 2017

NYROCK: Interview with Chris Cornell, October 1, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20030919022841/http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/1999/cornell_int.asp,
On depression and suicide

„Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.".
"Without success," I add.
"Without success.“

—  Suzanne Collins American television writer and novelist 1962

Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen, p. 301
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

„Things have never been so swell
and I have never felt this well! I have never failed to feel… Pain!“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

You Know You're Right.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

„I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.“

—  Bruce Fairchild Barton American author, politician and advertising executive 1886 - 1967

As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984) by Steven Fox

„When I was a student in the 1950s, I read Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty. When you feel an overwhelming influence, you try to open a window. Paradoxically enough, Heidegger is not very difficult for a Frenchman to understand. When every word is an enigma, you are in a not-too-bad position to understand Heidegger. Being and Time is difficult, but the more recent works are clearer. Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.“

—  Michel Foucault French philosopher 1926 - 1984

Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)

„Well, sure, when you have some success, you also work with more self-confidence and ease. But before that time; that awkward question: am I going to sell or not. All the same I never took notice of it regarding to my work.“

—  Suze Robertson Dutch painter 1855 - 1922

(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Suze Robertson:) O zeker, wanneer je wat succes hebt, werk je ook met grooter zelfvertrouwen en met grooter gemak. Maar daarvóór; die penibele kwestie: zal ik [kunnen] verkoopen of niet. Toch heb ik mij daar voor mijn werk nooit aan gestoord.
Zdroj: 1900 - 1922, p. 33

„I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.“

—  Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975

„It was one of those nights
One of those nights
When you feel the world stop turning
You were standing there
There was music in the air
I should have been away
But I knew I had to stay“

—  Jeff Lynne British rock musician 1947

Discovery (1979)

„No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes“

—  Arthur Conan Doyle, kniha The Sign of the Four

Zdroj: The Sign of Four