Do The Work Quotes

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

[Rex Tillerson] is gonna continue to work on [sanctions lifting]. This is important for him. He was there [in White House] because he negotiated the deal for Exxon with [Vladimir] Putin.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.