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Quotes About Work

I love the work I do.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
~ Emanuel Cleaver
Love yourself, open your heart which means doing the work on yourself first. Then love will follow.
~ Unknown
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
~ Emma Thompson
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
~ Eric S. Raymond
The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.
~ Erika Slezak
There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.
~ Etel Adnan
A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.
~ Evan Esar
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
~ Evan Esar
I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
~ Unknown
Usually, when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
~ Faith Ford
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
~ Ford Frick
Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
~ Francis Chan
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.
~ Frank Oz
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
~ Frederick E. Crane
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
~ G. Stanley Hall
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
~ Gail Zappa
When I moved to Los Angeles, my goal was to gain respect - whether it's in big or small projects - and as long as the work is good I'm happy.
~ Garrett Clayton
I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
~ Gene Kelly
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
~ George H. W. Bush
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
~ George Kennedy
The longer the title, the less important the job.
~ George McGovern