Do The Work Quotes

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

When I think about the fact that I get to work with stars like Will Ferrell or Kurt Russell my eyes fill with tears of joy and appreciation. I hope the ride keeps going.

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don't create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.