You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.
People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.
It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.
In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.
