Do The Work Quotes

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.

I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year.

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.