Work Quotes

"Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top"

"I go to work the minute I open my eyes"

"The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges"

"I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday"

Lita Ford, Musician

"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult"

Mark E. Smith, Musician

"But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work"

Sheryl Sandberg, Businessman

"I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force"

Sheryl Sandberg, Businessman

"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"To work is to feel alive"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"Work is both my living and my pleasure"

Harlan Howard, Musician

"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do"

Adrian Grenier, Actor

"I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that"

Laura Dern, Actress

"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother"

Laura Dern, Actress

"I just want to act. I just want to do the work"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience"

John Burns, Activist

"To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant"

Russell Banks, Author

"We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

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