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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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.
- Gravity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
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- Nov 07, 2020