Quotes About Legacy

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Architecture is the work of nations

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.