Will To Work Quotes

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.

I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.

There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

It's Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

On a movie, you have a great time, and you're really enjoying the work, and then everybody is done and goes their separate ways, and you maybe never get to work with those people again.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."