Michael Gudinski (Michael Solomon Gudinsk) Quotes

If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.

Michael Gudinski

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• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Cat
  • Now
  • Got

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Always
  • Rules
  • Now

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • News
  • Involvement
  • Backbone

• I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Never
  • Understand

• I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • You
  • Know
  • Car

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Cool
  • Down
  • Short

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

  

  John Berger
  • World
  • Rest
  • Poverty

• I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Music
  • Stations
  • Oldies

• Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Truths
  • Claims

• I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Me
  • Desire

• My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • People
  • Inspiration

• If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.

  

  Michael Gudinski
  • Life
  • Job
  • Enjoy