Do The Work Quotes

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.

Dreams do not work unless you do.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

honesty is hard work.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.