Do The Work Quotes

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

Let the boat work - and not me!

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.