Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
What one has to do usually can be done.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
