Jascha Heifetz Quotes

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

The important thing is the solution to the problem, not who gets the credit.

If I was a research scientist, I'd want people to say, 'You know what, he's a great research scientist, that Ricky Gervais. He's really good, really good.' You know, I'd go to award ceremonies for research scientists and go, 'Yeah, I really worked hard, yeah.' It's brilliant.

My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't do it. But I think what people don't fully know is how responsible you feel for so many entities. So many hardworking people who've collaborated.

I'm not the type of guy who wants the credit.

I'm not trying to steal anyone's shine.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

I don't need my name anywhere.

I don't know if you guys know this but I'm sort of a big deal.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

I get a standing ovation just standing

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.