Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me. . . the most dreadful thing.
For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.
One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.
Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'
Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.
Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one.
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself. '
I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.