Do The Work Quotes

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

This isn't missionary work. This is missionary fun.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.