Quotes About Achievement

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

Fortunately work begets work.

I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.