Quotes About Legacy

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important.

Set out to do good work. Set out to be fair in your dealings with customers, employees, and reality. Leave a lasting impression with the people you touch and worry less (or not at all!) about changing the world. Chances are, you won't, and if you do, it's not going to be because you said you would.

When someone copies you, they are copying a moment in time. They don't know the thinking that went into getting you to that moment in time, and they won't know the thinking that'll help you have a million more moments in time. They're stuck with what you left behind.

What you do is your legacy.

What you do is your legacy. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you're part of something important.

trophy room. "This room is on the site where my grandmother spent her very first night here," Stax said. "That was just a hole hacked out of the hillside. Grandmother didn't even have a bed. She huddled inside all night, listening to monsters howl on the other side of a dirt wall. And look at it

We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

We are working hard to avoid living in our past," he says. Stringer recognized that the real culprit standing in the way of progress at Sony was a tradition-bound mentality and began systematically letting go of the traditions and people that had hamstrung the company.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

In my relatively short time on this planet, I'd learned that there were two types of people. Those who were doomed to follow in whatever footsteps had been laid out for them, and those who were strong enough to carve their own path.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

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Para qué esto y para qué lo otro, para qué el dinero, o un negocio y su urdimbre, para qué una casa y una biblioteca, para qué salir y trabajar y hacer proyectos, para qué tener hijos y para qué hacer nada. Nada dura lo bastante porque todo se acaba, y una vez acabado resulta que nunca fue bastante, aunque durara cien años.

queda el olor de los muertos cuando nada más queda de ellos—

Pero lo vivido por los padres con anterioridad al nacimiento de los hijos suele ser ignorado por éstos, o aún es más, no les concierne hasta que ya son adultos plenos y es muy tarde para preguntar, a veces.

ignoramos lo que se fraguó entre la gente que nos precede, y lo más seguro es que lo ignoremos siempre, porque siempre llegamos tarde a la vida de las personas.

Tante cose accadono senza che nessuno le ricordi o se ne accorga. Di quasi nulla resta traccia.. e di quel poco che rimane tanto si tace, e di quel che non si tace si ricorda soltanto una parte minima' e per poco tempo, non si trasmette e non interessa chi la riceve, il quale plasma e possiede la sua propria memoria.