Quotes About Work

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.