Do The Work Quotes

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

The more I work the happier I am.

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

We are all just a work in progress.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I always want to work.

I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

I work on weekends, but from home.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

The pleasantest part of work is having done it.

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

Certainly when you're dealing with more deep emotional work and sensory work, for me it helps me to just stay in it.