Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.
Each shot is important.
I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.
Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.
I don't want to do films for the fun of it.
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
