Work Quotes

"I've tried to let the work I do speak"

David Morse

"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people"

David Bowie, Musician

"I can't miss a night's work and let my public down"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"One works without thinking how to work"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in"

Jay Roach, Director

"We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation"

Jon Porter, Politician

"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better"

John Carmack, Scientist

"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work"

David O. Russell, Director

"I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK"

Saul Williams, Musician

"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city"

Alan Autry, Actor

"There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part"

David Thewlis, Actor

"It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before"

Iris Chang, Historian

"I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D"

Iris Chang, Historian

"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me"

David Bowie, Musician

"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies"

Brion James, Actor

"I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing"

Dean Koontz, Author

"David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work"

Bob Odenkirk, Actor

"Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

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