Do The Work Quotes
We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
I have no plans to say or do anything about The Clinton Foundation other than to say how proud I am of it and that I think for the good of the world, its work should continue.
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.
It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.
Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.
Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.
It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.
I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.
I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.