Susan Rice Quotes

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.

Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.

I don't take characters home with me.

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

If you’re going to give objective advice, you’ve got to take the self interest out of the equation.

In the performance of your duties, neither be over-zealous, nor indifferent. When you do not know of a thing, say so plainly. In the narration of facts, refrain from poetising.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

In some cases, Justice Department leaders can supervise investigations despite having personal knowledge about the entities involved.

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.