They call it work for a reason. -Mr. Morgan

Posted by Jessica

My Dad told me once this and I remind myself of that when work just seems hard.

Even if you don’t need an assistant, ask for one.

Posted by Olga

This was an offhand remark that changed my life. 

When  I first started freelancing, the company that was hiring me 
asked if I  wanted an assistant. Since I didn’t feel like I had the 
right to have  one, I said ‘no, I can do everything myself’ and did 
so for a bunch of  jobs, doing double the work and grateful to just 
have a job. One day,  a more experienced freelancer saw me hauling 
heavy boxes, rather than  taking my place in an art direction 
meeting. I was trying to do an  assistants job and my more senior 
job and not doing a good job of  either. He said ‘even if you don’t 
need an assistant, ask for one.  they’ll respect you more. always 
ask for more and chances are you will  get it.’

It was about properly valuing myself and I listened. This piece of  
advice turned my financial situation around as well as the way I  
respected my work and what I had to offer.

Work is love made visible - Khalil Gibrain

Posted by Emlie

And I know that Mother Teresa said something similar, like ‘work until it is no longer work, but prayer’.

In Spanish: El flojo trabaja doble.

Posted by Emilie

In English: The lazy work double.

Be kind to the people you meet on the way up because you’ll need them on the way down. -André Duval

Posted by Jenna

It’s quite a visual.

Figure out what you have a passion doing. Become the best you can at doing it. Find someone to pay you to do it.

Posted by Susan

 I met a man at a party who makes his living sky diving and these were his words.

Never do anything out of laziness or fear. -Mrs. G

Posted by Dave G.

In my final year of film school, she was trying to convince me to direct my own thesis film. I was scared of failing and all the pre-production work involved in making the film a couple of months before we shot it and thinking of dropping the project and instead being the cinematographer on Selena’s thesis film and a few others. She asked me to imagine how I would feel year from then. Would I be happier having directed my own film or happier having been the cinematographer on a few of my classmates’ films? I told her I’d rather have directed my own. She asked me what I was afraid of and I told her. So she said that she had learned over her life that you should never do anything out of laziness or fear. [Post script: David’s film, Bean Cake, went on to win the Palme D’or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.]

“Perfect is often the enemy of very good.” -Dr. Greenspan

Posted by David

Indeed, indeed.

‘You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself into one.’ -Thoreau

Posted by Dreyfus

Heard this in high school. Still sticks.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. -Benjamin Franklin

Posted by Adam

Makes sense!