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I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.
Sep 10, 2025
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
Work hard at work worth doing.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
All growth depends upon activity.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The harder I work the more I live.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.