Jane Addams Quotes

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.

The day you think you have reached your fullest potential is the day that you havn't.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive. I mean, I am settled off the court; the business side of things, the papers, contracts and all of that, but there are a lot things that I need to work on, on the court, like my free-throw shooting, which has been terrible. I need to work on being more demanding in the post. My teammates are going to come to me and I just need to go out there and score in the post, which will open up things for our guards.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.We're looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we've been doing.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

I think I've been very consistent in my values.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.