C.L. Grant Quotes

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

No matter how exceptional your product, you won't benefit financially if you can't sell it.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

Never lower your target ; increase your actions.

You can't reach your potential without haters.

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn

Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.

I improve on misquotation.

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

God’s love looks for those who feel unlovely, desiring to make them beautiful again.

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.