#your

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#best #false #goal #measure #own

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#conceptual #conceptual art #different #experience #good

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#character #comes #discuss #his #i

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#every #go #i #know #me

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consistent #dead #dealt #even #gone

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers. ↗

— Ed Sullivan

#because #cure #dose #good #good job

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. ↗

— Tom Hicks

#approach #awhile #every #last #nickel

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #extending #happened #never #out