Lincoln Davis Quotes

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

Many hands make light work.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.

It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

One man will carry two buckets of water for his own use, Two men will carry one for their joint use; Three men will carry none for anybody's use.

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.

Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.

The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

Competition is for everyone.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

I don't believe in competition.

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

You have to play together and play the right way.

We definitely don't want to get in others' way while we're competing.