Work Quotes

"I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"We will work with everybody for the good of New York"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work"

John Sebastian, Musician

"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work"

Robert Caro, Writer

"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"Telling lies does not work in advertising"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I think it's important to do great work"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"The longer you work here, diverse it gets"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice"

Melanie Griffith, Actress

"Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her"

Jim Dale, Musician

"History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that"

John Sayles, Director

"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon"

Horace Walpole, Author

"One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

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