Do The Work Quotes

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Either make your money work for you or you will always have to work for your money.

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.