What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?
Recorded Tim Cook said elsewhere, not written here
In every way at every turn, the question we ask ourselves is not what can we do, but what should we do?.”

Duke University Commencement, Duke Today, 13 May 2018 source ↗

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Wisława Szymborska Poet and essayist; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1996
But poets are the worst. Their work is hopelessly unphotogenic. Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines only to cross out one of them fifteen minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens … Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
Recorded Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 7 December 1996, The Nobel Foundation (nobelprize.org), 7 December 1996 source ↗
Ephraim Asili Filmmaker, Educator, and DJ
Most of what I do is just managing feelings, emotions, and thoughts
Recorded Sara Wintz, The Creative Independent, 21 October 2019 source ↗
Geoffrey Rush Australian actor
I am being careful not to clutter my life with career administration so I can keep the focus on the acting.
Recorded Richard Mowe, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Eye For Film, 6 July 2022 source ↗
François Ozon Film director and screenwriter
Not always. Actually I like to do movies but I’m quite bored with all the work around. All the promotion. Actually, when you’re successful, all this work around is quite difficult. But, I have to deal with that.
Recorded Filmmaker Magazine, March 2013 source ↗

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