Do The Work Quotes

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

Your heart works for you, but do you work for your heart?

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

My best advice is to work out with a buddy. They keep you motivated and get you out of bed.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

My wife and I got remarried. Our divorce didn't work out.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids.