Work Quotes

"Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents"

Norman Granz, Musician

"I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing"

Ed Harris, Actor

"I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera"

John Hench, Artist

"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore"

Brian De Palma, Director

"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding"

Richard King, Director

"When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change"

John Perkins, Economist

"I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story"

John Hench, Artist

"I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work"

Russell Banks, Author

"The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group"

Victor Garber, Actor

"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original"

Billy Wilder, Director

"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"I try to deal with my serious reading before work"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

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