- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Best Quotes
Quotes on doing your best work.
These quotes focus on craft and timing - a drama student naming the first year as the best, and filmmakers explaining that the best visual effects and shots come from grounding fantasy in something real. Related reading includes Achievement Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them - the careerists and predators - you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
- Contemporary Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents loved music, but they weren't musicians. So my musical training as a young kid was limited to piano lessons. I was not the best student; I was awful, never practiced. But I was always interested in just messing around on the piano.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020