Sam Waterston Quotes
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Quotes to Explore
-
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
-
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
-
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
-
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
-
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
-
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
-
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
-
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
-
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
-
There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
-
I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
-
In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
-
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
-
I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
-
Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
-
I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
-
One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
-
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
-
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
-
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
