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.
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
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