Work Quotes

"I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him"

Neil LaBute, Director

"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"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"Many hands make light work"

John Heywood, Dramatist

"The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege"

David Geffen, Businessman

"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her"

David Geffen, Businessman

"It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do"

Bruce Barton, Author

"I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work"

Harry S. Truman, President

"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"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

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