Do The Work Quotes

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.