Work Quotes

"I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that he always called me Francis, I always felt like I was going to a party, instead of work. It was such a blast.'"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius"

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public"

Anne Grant, Poet

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

"I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home"

George Stephen, Businessman

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work"

Brian Eno, Musician

"You must work very hard to become a natural golfer"

Gary Player, Athlete

"We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits"

William S. Paley, Businessman

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work"

Edwin Starr, Musician

"I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world"

Edwin Starr, Musician

"My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching"

Jamelia, Musician

"Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work"

Jerry Gillies, Author

"I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2"

Julie Benz, Actress

"I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that"

Tim Hardaway, Athlete

"I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex"

Molly Parker, Actress

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