Go To Work Quotes
Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.
Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.
While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.
I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.
If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.
Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.
Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.
Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.
I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.
It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.
So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.
Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.
Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.
I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.
If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.