logo

Quotes About Work

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
~ Stephen Covey
I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.
~ Stephen Dorff
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
~ Stephen Root
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
~ Steven Bochco
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
~ Steven Pressfield
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
~ Steven Pressfield
I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.
~ Steven Wright
What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.
~ Steven Yeun
It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
~ Sting
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
~ Sue Grafton
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
~ Sue Grafton
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
~ Susan George
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
~ Sydney Pollack
Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.
~ Sylvia Earle
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
~ T.A. Barron
As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].
~ T.I.
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
~ Tab Hunter
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
~ Tanith Lee
Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work
~ Unknown
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
~ Tea Leoni
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel.
~ Ted Danson