Do The Work Quotes

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.

I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

I always look for something that I haven't necessarily done yet because I like to expand my body of work.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.