Do The Work Quotes

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

I have never done a stroke of work in my life.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

I am eating more. I think you do eat more when you're working out. And you want to eat healthily, so it's good all round.

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.