Do The Work Quotes

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

The universe does not work by our rules

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

I don't think I'm easy, but I think I'm quite a good worker.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.