Quotes About Work

Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.

Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

People are earning their living as 'celebrities' without actually doing anything.

When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.

I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

I just want to give 110 per cent and do the best I can when I'm used.

Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.

People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.

When you go to work, you do what your bosses tell you to do. If your bosses tell you to do something a certain way, you do it. If you get to a point where you don't want to do it anymore, you either: do what they tell you to do or leave, which was part of the reason why I decided to go to New Japan.

I have to work. I have a certain way of life I want to maintain.