Credit Quotes - Page 25

• When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

  Henry Taylor

  Order, Generosity, Giving

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

  John Locke

  Atheism, Reason, Made

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”

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• I think the reason why I have so many movies to my credit is that I never say no to any project, I never veto anything. I sort of challenge myself to do stuff, even if it's something that I've never done before.

  Takashi Miike

  Thinking, Challenges, Done

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

  Cillian Murphy

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.

  Jonathan Groff

  Cutting, The End Of The Day, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

  John Malkovich

  Art, Wall, Smell

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

  Claude Lelouch

  Firsts, Attention, Scene

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

  Ruba Nadda

  Long, People, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

  Roger Ailes

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

  Doyle Brunson

  People, Cards, Checks

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story (Part 2)". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com. May, 2003.

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• If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Giving, Ifs, Loses

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2005). “Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth”, Harmony

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• If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Nsa, Wife

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Lazy, Likes

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• It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

  James Sinegal

  Loyalty, Successful, Organization

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• People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

  John Waters

  People, Drunk

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• Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

  Denise Richards

  School, Negative, Blame

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• Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

  Adi Da

  Fatigue

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• Working nine to five, what way to earn a living.
  Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving.
  They use just your mind and they never give you credit.
  It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!

  Dolly Parton

  Crazy, Giving, Mind

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• You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.

  Venus Williams

  Home, Giving, Parent

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• There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

  Lalah Hathaway

  Sometimes, Courtesy, Hard

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• The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.

  Dick Armey

  Years, Numbers, Special

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• Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

  Thomas Browne

  Victory, Opinion, Poor

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• Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'

  Roy Peter Clark

  Mean, Writing, Careers

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• Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done?

  Mark Beeson

  Jobs, Long, Done

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• "Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll."

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Tape, Thanks

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