Go To Work Quotes

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

I met BSB at a benefit gig we were both doing, and they are really humble, nice guys - and very hard working

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

You have work at being a couple.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.

The most fun part about working out is being done - getting through the workout, let's be honest. But that feeling afterward? Yeah, that's worth it.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.