Go To Work Quotes

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Joe Frazier was the easiest boxer to work with that I ever trained.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Every work of art is about everything.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.