Go To Work Quotes

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.