Will To Work Quotes

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

I love to work with young kids.