Will To Work Quotes

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

I really feel lucky that I still feel excited about the actual work that I get to do. I just happen to love it, and I could easily see, for somebody else, that not being the case.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Work is what horses die of

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it

I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

It's always really scary to release new work.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.