Do The Work Quotes

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

I'm a man without a corporation.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

But I don't work out. I pay people to do that for me.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.

Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.