"To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!"
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"Work is love made visible."
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"God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things."
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"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."
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"The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work"
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"There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way."
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"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together."
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"My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love."
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"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
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"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
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"Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."
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"If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work."
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"If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further."
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"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
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"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
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"Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."
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"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
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