[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.
I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.
You can't rest on any laurels if they exist, and happily there are some from the franchise, but you have to always expand your own horizon both creatively and technically as well.
It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels.
You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me. . . One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is. . . my white plume.
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead