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Quotes About Work

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
~ Naomi Wolf
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
~ Frances McDormand
I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.
~ Alain Ducasse
It's exciting to work with stars, but there is no reason to be nervous because in the initial stages of my career, I have worked with Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan... I have worked with these stars, so nervousness has gone out my system after that.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.
~ Barry Sonnenfeld
There are a lot of stars I've worked with - big stars - who, when they walk on set, the energy just changes.
~ Kathleen Robertson
I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.
~ Hope Davis
If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.
~ William H. McRaven
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
~ Aaron Patzer
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.
~ Aaron Donald
My journey with Krishna Vamsi had started with revenge and ended with love. When I went to Krishna Vamsi's office to work as an assistant director, I was sent out. Then I had thought they might one day need me.
~ Nani
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
~ Calvin Klein
I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.
~ Salman Khan
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out that they were doing some kind of spiritual work to elevate the sparks. In my life and career, I've had the opportunity to find myself where I could make some spiritual moves, to do some work that is spiritually important.
~ Matisyahu
I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.
~ Timothy Morton
If you are a reliever, you get one inning per game or if you are a starter you get one game per week. There is a lot of buildup for a little bit of work compared to the guys who play every down or play every day in baseball.
~ Stephen Gostkowski
One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
~ Caitlin Doughty
I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.
~ Shirley Temple
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
~ Karl Malone
But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.
~ Peter Sarsgaard
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
~ Mike Newell
Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.
~ Jesse Schell
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
~ Dick Van Dyke