Work Quotes

"And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth"

Louis Agassiz, Scientist

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work"

Tim Hardaway, Athlete

"I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off"

David Zucker, Director

"Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression"

Billy Zane, Actor

"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win"

Larry Dixon

"One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work"

Roger Corman, Producer

"Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it"

Gary Wright, Musician

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work"

Rainer W. Fassbinder

"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else"

Neil Young, Musician

"I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do"

Judith Light, Actress

"So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

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