Do The Work Quotes

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

I'll just let my work speak for itself, as every artist should.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.