- Good Teachers
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy... everything has a place. It's kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch. Gelateria Sempione in Milan is the best in the world, hands down. The chocolate sorbetto is amazing.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way I've learned to navigate pivotal moments in my career is by actively cultivating a personal board of directors. The most successful companies and nonprofits have strong boards to help guide them, so why not create our own? The needs are quite similar.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020