My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.
I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.
I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.
The time to think about personal achievement is at the end of your career.
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
My work is not great, but it's respectable.
I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.
Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
