Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest."
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Working It
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment."
Helmut Newton
Photographer
"...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong."
Kiki Smith
Artist
"I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world."
Donald Miller
Author
"People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen."
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"I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own."
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"If it works, it's true."
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"Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours."
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"If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work."
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"One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it."
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"If it works, it's out of date."
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"Work? It’s just serious play."
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"You can't just do cheap CGI and think that's going to work. It doesn't."
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"If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings."
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"I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be."
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"You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders."
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"I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure."
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"Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control."
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"Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough."
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"If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative."
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"I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing."
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"Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why."
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"One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it."
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"If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now."
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"Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen."
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