Work Quotes

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.