Go To Work Quotes

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

I really like reading about how families work together.

Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

I'm having the time of my life. I've never looked forward to going to work so much every day. I'm loving it; it's great. It's what I love to do and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

I do like celebrating women, I do like celebrating different lifestyles and choices and people and it makes me happy when others find my work empowering.