Do The Work Quotes

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.