A Quote by Christopher Daniels

So much of our business is 'What have you done lately?' There is no resting on the laurels. — © Christopher Daniels
So much of our business is 'What have you done lately?' There is no resting on the laurels.
I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.
It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.
I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that.
I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.
It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.
I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.
As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
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