Do The Work Quotes

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.

My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

I like the irony in my work.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

You can't just do cheap CGI and think that's going to work. It doesn't.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.