Do The Work Quotes

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

I work as my father drank.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

It’s better to wear out than rust out.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Don't be afraid of hard work.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

Work is the province of cattle.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.