Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

For my future growth, I'm going to keep working. I'm going to put everything I have in it, and I think everybody knows that that's just the type of person I am.

I pride myself on what I do every night. I pride myself on my work ethic and how I carry myself. I want to be mature in my approach but focused and disciplined.

That's all I'm programmed for: to keep pushing and to try to make the most of my career and my life, to take care of my family.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.