Do The Work Quotes

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.