Quotes About Work

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

It's kind of hard to balance school and work sometimes. But sometimes, like, if I'm going to the White House and I'm in there doing a tour and stuff, that's like school.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Nothing that doesn't push you past your limits can change your life. It's true of work, it's true of parenting, and it's true — a hundred times over — of love.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.

I don't know about other people, but I love to work.

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.