Go To Work Quotes

This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

I just had a really good time when I did my voice work for Call of Duty. Ive had nothing but great interaction with Activision.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

People buy things in isolation and don't think of how they work together.

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.