Work Quotes

"You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success"

Julie Benz, Actress

"I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art"

Louis Nizer, Lawyer

"There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents"

Laura Dern, Actress

"What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?"

Laura Dern, Actress

"When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion"

Rihanna, Musician

"And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"I think it makes a lot of sense and of course I love Christie Clark. I think she's awesome; she's beautiful and fun to work with. I think she has some really unique qualities to her that would bring a lot to the show"

Austin Peck, Actor

"I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent"

Obie Trice, Musician

"We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self"

Emily Mortimer, Actress

"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise"

Ted Danson, Actor

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera"

John Sexton, Educator

"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today"

John Sexton, Educator

"I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point"

John Sexton, Educator

"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work"

Martin Mull, Actor

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