Do The Work Quotes

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for both.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish.

After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

You can always work harder and we are capable of extraordinary things.

Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.