Do The Work Quotes

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.