Work Quotes

"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work"

"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me"

George Lopez, Comedian

"Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"If you want peace work for justice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work"

Ted Danson, Actor

"When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"I really wanted to work and become independent"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks"

George Stephen, Businessman

"I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn"

William Gurnall, Author

"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have"

William Devane, Actor

"Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around"

Julie Walters, Actress

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