top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible."
Standard
Customized
More
"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry."
Thought
"It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian."
Pity
"We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field."
War
"My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose."
War
"All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious."
War
"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."
Father
"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."
Enemy
"I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin."
Experience
"Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring."
English
"There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity."
Quality
bottom of page