Do The Work Quotes

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes. I ride my bike to work, do yoga to relax, and go out dancing to get my booty-shaking on!

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.

I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies.