Will To Work Quotes

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

Work backward from your goal.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

A writer's work is to witness things.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.