Go To Work Quotes

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

I'm the one I need to work with.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

Things always work according to their nature.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

I enjoy working out. That is important for me. Whether it's a hike with my dog or an hour at the gym, I like to maintain an active lifestyle.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.