Betty Cuthbert Quotes

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Betty Cuthbert

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• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Know

• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Work
  • History
  • Years

• The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Spirit

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Information

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Like
  • Singer

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Work
  • Day
  • Acting

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Right now, everybody is nervous. I would sure hate to see us go into free agency without (a new CBA) done. The other thing I'm hoping for is the date to be extended.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Done
  • Free
  • Hate

• The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • Leadership

• I've always been my own hitting coach.

  

  David Ortiz

• My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Son
  • Lake

• My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

  

  Betty Cuthbert
  • Work
  • Free
  • Gold