Do The Work Quotes

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

Spreading an idea is hard work.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

I am always successful in my work.

To work from nature is to improvise.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.