Work Quotes

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

We work to become, not to acquire.