Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying. ' I tried with all my heart.
When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.
It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when. . . God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity
What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?
The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.
I know they are naught things, but I devour novels. ” (p. 57).