Do The Work Quotes

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.

I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

I am married to work.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

I know that I have the potential. And the opportunities. But I don't say: "I want to win the Australian Open in 2018." It doesn't work that way.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next