Do The Work Quotes

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

Boy, the things I do for England.

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

How Sunday into Monday melts!

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

Never show unfinished work.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you’ve made too much of it, to remember it doesn’t define you.

Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.