Aldous Harding Quotes

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

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

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

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

There is nothing to regret with a job well done.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

I felt something like a sense of achievement while acting.

I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years.

When I stand in that ring after a match, I feel like the strongest me! It's truly the greatest feeling.

Honestly, it's the most amazing feeling in the world to be able to work on something that you're really proud of.

We know how difficult it is to do something that works and that you feel proud of. When it happens, it's like a miracle.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Every part has its relief when I'm done with it.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

Winning tastes good.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.