Work Quotes

"Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"It's still difficult for me to watch my work"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done"

River Phoenix, Actor

"I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture"

Kate Moss, Model

"All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to"

Kate Moss, Model

"I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work"

Marion Ross, Actor

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something"

Julie Benz, Actress

"I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible"

John Astin, Actor

"My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do"

John Astin, Actor

"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ"

William Gurnall, Author

"I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences"

John Hench, Artist

"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

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