Do The Work Quotes
Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .
There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance
Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).
I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.
The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.
If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.
Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.
When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.
Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.
Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.
What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.
My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.