Do The Work Quotes

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?

My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work.

That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

If I lost everything and had to start again, I would find myself a great network marketing company and get to work!

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.