Work Quotes

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.