I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ ]
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse.
Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
