Quotes About Legacy

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

People can't believe how hard I work.... I love it. I think it just runs through my veins. My great-grandfather was a bellboy and had a dream to do a hotel chain, so I think I get it from him.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.

Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.