Work Quotes

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside"

John Dyer, Artist

"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work"

John Dyer, Artist

"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work"

John Dyer, Artist

"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes"

Jimmy Carter, President

"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next"

Charles Eames, Designer

"I try to be known more for my work than for anything else"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore"

Stendhal, Writer

"Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile"

Walter Chrysler, Inventor

"Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue"

Paul Pierce, Athlete

"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming"

Corrine Brown, Politician

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