Do The Work Quotes

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

I love to work out and do cardio and have a healthy, active lifestyle, but I also am not going to, like, freak out over food.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.