Do The Work Quotes

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

I work until beer o'clock.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.

In my wildest dreams i never thought- well, I never thought I'd work

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Start before you’re ready.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.

What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Well you are a piece of work aren't you?

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.

In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.