Quotes About 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.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.