Do The Work Quotes

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.

I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.

One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

The work doesn't begin until you get tired!