Do The Work Quotes

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Without work men are utterly undone

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation.

It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.

I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.