Do The Work Quotes

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Architecture is the work of nations

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited!

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

Took a vow to protect and serve, All you do is disrespect and murder. I ask that you not hurt my kids; This is where you work...this is where I live.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.