I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I... →
Ben Marcus
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day... →
I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm... →
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your... →
Orison Swett Marden
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not... →
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.'... →
Mark Margolis