Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.
For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneou...
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.
My greatest competition is, well, me.
That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
The greatest risk is not taking one.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.
I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.
Music will always be my greatest passion.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.
Time is the greatest enemy of fulfilment .
