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It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

It gets late early out there.

It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.