Do The Work Quotes

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

Me and my team always work so hard outside that square circle.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

I have a pacemaker in, but it doesn't work very well, because every time I fart the garage door opens.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.