Go To Work Quotes

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.