Do The Work Quotes

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

Though not everyone can attend seminary, every Christian has a seminary between two covers - the Holy Bible. God's Word is a school that trains us for the work He has planned for us on earth.

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.

How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

All creativity is a work in progress.

It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.

I don't see myself going back to blonde outside of work though. I really like the red.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

You can't get work without working.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

Your money should be at work at all times.

When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

There's no sauce for play like work.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.