Work Quotes

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

"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

"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

"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator"

Howard Coble, Politician

"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there"

Martha Beck, Author

"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy"

John Burroughs, Author

"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work"

William Shatner, Actor

"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book"

John Sayles, Director

"To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'"

John Sayles, Director

"I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him"

John Burroughs, Author

"Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels"

Archer J. P. Martin

"I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do"

Carol Alt, Model

"The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day"

Buck Owens, Musician

"If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster"

David Cronenberg, Director

"There was no one around me who didn't work hard"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work"

Daniel J. Bernstein, Mathematician

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