Do The Work Quotes
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.
I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.
The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.
We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.
I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.
My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.
I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.
