#work

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#direct #extraordinarily #first #going #i

So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#choice #economies #even #government #i

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#age #behind #done #left #matter

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with. ↗

— Tom Felton

#closest friends #conversation #friends #go #good

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them. ↗

— Julie Christie

#even #film #interesting #interesting way #letting

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#average #average person #between #capacity #devote

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#fatigue #frustration #often #our #resentment

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door. ↗

— Tom Felton

#debt #door #eight #had #horrible

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule. ↗

— Robert Caro

#early #easy #everything #excuse #fool