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Quotes About Work

All work is empty save when there is love.
~ Khalil Gibran
I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.
~ Kiana Tom
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".
~ King Krule
For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.
~ Kristen Stewart
I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
~ Lady Gaga
I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
~ Lady Gaga
An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.
~ Laura Bush
Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.
~ Laura Riding
I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.
~ Unknown
I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
~ Lee Radziwill
The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.
~ Leo Fitzpatrick
Good work is good work wherever it is.
~ Lesley Ann Warren
Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.
~ Lewis Black
My main thing is to chill with my kids. My daughter loves to work, as well-she loves to record and stuff-so I like to work with her.
~ Lil Wayne
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.
~ Lin Yutang
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
~ Lin Yutang
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
~ Linda Lavin
It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.
~ Liu Dan
A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.
~ Louis Auchincloss
You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play
~ Louisa May Alcott
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.
~ Louise DeSalvo