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Quotes About Work

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
~ Bif Naked
Actually they [ Netflix] were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.
~ Bill Burr
The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.
~ Bill Kovach
I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.
~ Blair Underwood
Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
~ Bono
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
~ Brendan Fraser
Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
~ Brene Brown
I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!
~ Brooklyn Decker
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
~ Brooks Atkinson
I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I was just confident my work was good.
~ Bunny Yeager
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
~ C. S. Lewis
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
~ Calvin Trillin
Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.
~ Candace Bushnell
I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
~ Candida Hofer
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
~ Casper Van Dien
A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!
~ Charles Lamb
"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.
~ Charlie Brooker
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.
~ Chloe Grace Moretz
Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.
~ Chris Moneymaker
The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.
~ Chris Ofili