Work Quotes

"I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy"

"I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier"

"Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera"

Nia Long, Actress

"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture"

Quintilian, Educator

"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life"

John Milius, Director

"I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward"

Nia Long, Actress

"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Work at being a humble person"

John Templeton, Businessman

"My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

"The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven"

Knute Rockne, Coach

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