Work Quotes

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

The road is a lot of work.

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.