Work Quotes

"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work"

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance"

"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario"

Ron Chernow, Author

"You can kind of feel when things are going to work out"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back"

John Cusack, Actor

"The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate"

Teri Garr, Actress

"Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place"

May Sarton, Poet

"Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded"

Paul Klee, Artist

"If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story"

Don Bluth, Artist

"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time"

Joan Jett, Musician

"If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace"

Hesiod, Poet

"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

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