Do The Work Quotes

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.