Go To Work Quotes

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Ive learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

I don't do well when I don't work.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.