If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
Interpretation
To excel in your work, you must first find personal satisfaction in it.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-fulfillment in one's work. If you are not passionate or happy about what you are doing, it is difficult to expect others to appreciate it or be motivated by it. The underlying message suggests that genuine enthusiasm and contentment in your own efforts can often inspire and influence those around you, creating a more positive and engaged environment.
In practice
This quote can be used as a motivational message at a workplace seminar.
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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