Do The Work Quotes

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

Work to learn. Don't work for money.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - - but create!

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. ... The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.