The nature of the work is to ...

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .
The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .
 Sidney Lumet

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This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
 Sidney Lumet
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
 Sidney Lumet
Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.
 Sidney Lumet
There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.
 Sidney Lumet