Go To Work Quotes

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

Writing is hard work.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.

Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time.

I was inspired by World Vision. It's almost like I sponsored (Donald) Faison and gave him an opportunity to do something with his life. What more would he want than to work with me?

Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.