Do The Work Quotes
I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
When you’ve practiced that so long that you forget you’re practising, you work on making it smooooooth. You won’t have to worry about the last one – you get those three, and you’ll be fast.
It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.
There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.
Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.
Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.
My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on.
The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.
When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.
I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.
Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?
Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.
It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.
My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.
I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!
