Niklaus Wirth Quotes

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

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.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

It kind of feels good to make something that you're proud of and it's also very real to you.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

I've got a lot to do, and I hope that by the end of it all, people will say that Dee Snider was an entertainer, and he did his job well.

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

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

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

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

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.

It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

When people appreciate my work, that's satisfying as an artiste.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

There is nothing to regret with a job well done.