Martine McCutcheon Quotes

I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because I work hard.

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Me
  • Coach

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Future
  • Eye

• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Dad

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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  • Work
  • Country

• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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  • Time
  • Good

• I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Place
  • Biology

• I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
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  • Guy
  • Night

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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  • Future
  • Me

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Work
  • Done

• I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• Somewhere I just want to find someone that's going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Forever

• I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feel
  • Inspired

• I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because I work hard.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Good
  • Work