Do The Work Quotes

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

All growth depends upon activity.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

The secret of the team's success is easy - unity and hard work.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.