Work Quotes

"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting"

"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence"

"I want paint to work as flesh"

"I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together"

David Bowie, Musician

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me"

David Bowie, Musician

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare"

John Lithgow, Actor

"You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses"

Jon Porter, Politician

"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"I live, like every real man, in my work"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes?"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him"

Ed Harris, Actor

"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice"

Eva Green, Actress

"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time"

David Bowie, Musician

"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding"

Richard King, Director

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character"

Michael Richards, Actor

"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release"

James Taylor, Musician

"I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home"

John Lithgow, Actor

"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"For too many, to work means having less income"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together"

John McCain, Politician

"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

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