Work Quotes

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service"

John Burroughs, Author

"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well"

Bill Owens, Politician

"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work"

Arthur C. Nielsen, Businessman

"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about"

Tara Strong, Actress

"The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine"

Nia Long, Actress

"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work"

Nia Long, Actress

"When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

"We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some"

Robert Fulghum, Author

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