Quotes About Work

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

I'm married, and my wife has set out very limited Xbox limits. But if I had my druthers, I'd be playing all the time and never see any of my friends or do any work.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.