Do The Work Quotes

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

The earth needs our work… now.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

One works without thinking how to work.

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing songs in which people all over the world can relate to.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.