Go To Work Quotes

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I continue to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those who work very hard

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

I look forward to working out every day.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

A lot of people don't want to put that work in they just want to be famous.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.