Work Quotes

"I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work"

"Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker"

Denise Richards, Actress

"The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that"

Buck Owens, Musician

"But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors"

David Cronenberg, Director

"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them"

Lana Turner, Actress

"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it"

Keith Richards, Musician

"To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance"

Keith Richards, Musician

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together"

Keith Richards, Musician

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"The gallery is generating work for the masses"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

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