Work Quotes

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

I swim when I can but I don't work out.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.