Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.

A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.