Quotes About Work

The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies.

I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.