Work Quotes

"I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good"

Colin Baker, Actor

"Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure"

John Cale, Musician

"You can do whatever you want with my work"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction"

Roman Polanski, Director

"Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more"

Jo Stafford, Musician

"You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great"

Grace Slick, Musician

"We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning"

David O. Selznick, Producer

"A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance"

Alex Rodriguez, Athlete

"Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form"

Kit Williams, Author

"I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds"

Gordon B. Hinckley, Clergyman

"Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it"

James Caan, Actor

"I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air"

Martin Milner, Actor

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