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 not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
Time is generally the best doctor.
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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