Do The Work Quotes

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

I never doubted myself. It just didn't work.

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

God is not calling us to work for Him. He is calling us to walk with Him.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Start at the end and work back.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.

Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.