Mike Vogel Quotes

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

We define our success internally.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

I feel like I've done everything I can, and what I wanted to do.

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.