Do The Work Quotes

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.