This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Quote by Bette Davis
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This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Bette Davis Quotes
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
- I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
- This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
- Strong women only marry weak men.
- I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
- I've lost my faith in science.
- There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.