Quotes About Work

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.