Do The Work Quotes

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

It is difficult to make political art work.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Thought will not work except in silence.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

A man's perfection is his work.

Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.

I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.