Will To Work Quotes

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I was enthusiastic about Monday morning from the day I left college.

Work isn't really work for me.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

Sensible people have got to work together.

I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.