Work Quotes

"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now"

P. T. Barnum, Entertainer

"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard"

Ernst Lubitsch, Director

"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz"

Joe Simon

"As an actor, I was just satisfied to work"

Thayer David, Actor

"What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"Achievement results from work realizing ambition"

Adam Ant, Musician

"I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this"

Marc Morial, Politician

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit"

Helena Rubinstein, Businessman

"You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life"

Peter Cushing, Actor

"A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota"

Bill Janklow, Politician

"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan"

Yuan Shikai, Soldier

"Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast"

Frank McCourt, Author

"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families"

Jerry Only, Musician

"You shouldn't have to justify your work"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits"

David Cameron, Politician

"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism"

Charles Schwab, Businessman

"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters"

Bob Greene, Journalist

"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

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