Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. ”

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth. ”

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle. ”

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses. ”

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down. ”

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. ”

My career is an open book, but my life is not. ”

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel. ”

When you become a professional, there is all this other stuff you have to do. That part is the job, capital J-O-B. They're very different things, but they're all part of the same career. Once you get onstage and you get to perform, that's your reward for doing your job. ”

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards. ”