Work Quotes

"I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always"

"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance"

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work"

"You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive"

Larry Wall, Author

"It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work"

Paul Simon, Musician

"I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot"

Milla Jovovich, Model

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary"

Larry Wall, Author

"It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

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

George Sand, Novelist

"I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself"

Jose Marti, Activist

"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work"

Paul Simon, Musician

"I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

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