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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
You discover yourself through the research of your work.
You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.
Don't define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work.
Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.
Do internships and work your butt off to learn as much as you can and prove yourself.
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.
If you have a point of view regarding my style of work, keep it to yourself. You are not entitled to express your opinion.
Auditioning is a completely terrifying beast. It's not your work that matters, it's if you can sell yourself in that room.
You can control what you put in your body, how you take care of yourself, how much you work. You have to control what you can.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.
If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself?
Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.
To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!
How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.
What works for me might not work for the next guy. You have to work within yourself and know what's going to provide you with the amount of energy you need to do your job.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.
Try to be one of the first people in here, work your butt off in the weight room, asking questions, try to prepare yourself like a pro, like a vet. Stuff like that is what sits well with your team.
There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.
I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.
When you dive into being an entrepreneur, you are making a commitment to yourself and to others who come to work with you and become interdependent with you that you will move mountains with every ounce of energy you have in your body.
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
When you build your network, keep yourself open to new ideas, concepts, and theories. Some of them may even contradict and challenge long-held points of view. This isn't beneficial only to someone in my profession, but to every line of work.
It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.
I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you're putting your work out on the line, it's also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.