Mary Pilon Quotes

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

You always look to impress.

You base your career on success.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

There are a lot of things that people love, they just can't do for a living.

I've been very fortunate throughout my career to fight for the best organizations in the world.

I'm a boring guy who's got a great job in a profession that still gives me a great deal of pleasure after 35 years.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

Work ... is redemption.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.