Do The Work Quotes

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

I need my products to work and be fast! I don't love having 50 different things in my bathroom, like a different cream for every inch of my face. That's so not me.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

When you can't create you can work

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."