Work Quotes

"I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'"

Al Franken, Comedian

"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs"

Elton John, Musician

"Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers"

Elton John, Musician

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"Life is too short to work so hard"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a little bit, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with"

Tom Felton, Actor

"My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill"

Tom Felton, Actor

"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

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