Do The Work Quotes

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

There are some things that you can work on immediately.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.

There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

Is not every life, every work fine?

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.