Do The Work Quotes

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.