Do The Work Quotes

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.