George Washington Quotes

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

When I do something, I don't want to be second best. That's the right way.

I've always tried to have a pretty discerning eye with the roles that I've picked, which is maybe why it seems like I take breaks, but really, they're not breaks. It's just that there's not as much out there as one would hope. I'm lucky enough to be able to be choosy sometimes.

I'm only focusing on good work. I'm known to be a little choosy, and I'm proud of it.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

You don't need a team leader, you need quality.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.