Do The Work Quotes

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.

Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with, or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.