Quotes About Achievement

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

We work and that is godlike.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

I want to work with Justin Timberlake.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.