Work Quotes

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.