Quotes About Work

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day.

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.