Do The Work Quotes

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

I need to work to feel well.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

The right use of color can make any composition work.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

I try to work with God as a partner.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.