Do The Work Quotes

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.