"I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure." ― Alan Rickman Topic(s): Success More From Alan Rickman "I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence." "I have a love-hate relationship with white silk." "One longs for a director with a sense of imagination." More In Success "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."― Niccolo Machiavelli "Success should always be just beyond your grasp."― William Shatner "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?"― Jean Cocteau