Will To Work Quotes

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do.

Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work.

As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

Love makes one fitt for any work.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.