Go To Work Quotes

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

It's a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.