Do The Work Quotes

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.