Will To Work Quotes

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.

I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

I can see how people work out to feel better.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

Understand your fears and then work to conquer them.

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

Hope for the best and work for it.

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

I don’t know how to explain it.” “Try words. If that doesn’t work, we’ll move on to interpretive dance.

But it is clear to me that our survival—both yours and mine—will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.” “So we’re screwed?

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

We're going to be eternally optimistic that the Senate is going to get their work done.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.