Work Quotes

"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with"

Erik Qualman, Author

"I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us"

John Sexton, Educator

"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"I criticize my own work pretty harshly"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on"

Evan Parker, Musician

"The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security"

Jon Porter, Politician

"I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it"

Joan Collins, Actress

"We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy"

Martin Mull, Actor

"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom"

Major Owens, Politician

"I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"Your mind is what makes everything else work"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

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