Do The Work Quotes

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.

Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.

Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Do your homework all of your life.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.