Quotes About Work

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.