Do The Work Quotes

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.

This new (technology) that is so transforming our world and economy is not going to work unless it works for everyone.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

We all do better when we work together.