Will To Work Quotes

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work

I don't like working out with lots of makeup because I don't like it getting into my pores.

I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

It definitely happens more often than you would think when someone comes up and you're like: "He's really attractive and seems really nice," and it just doesn't work if he smells bad.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.

The lack of work destroys people.

I don’t have to be a "gazillionaire;" what’s important to me is to just being able to work.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

I work whenever I'm let.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

I really hope that I get to work with Chris [Nolan] some day.

I really enjoyed working on the first one [Batman franchise] and I wish I could have worked with Chris Nolan again and I hope to work with him again.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.