Quotes About Work

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

My work means everything to me.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices.

I'm very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That's the whole secret to everything. It's having people who love to work where they're working and want to win.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I think the biggest challenges for franchises are keeping them fresh and exciting, and most times, you need a good bad guy to make that thing continually work, and sometimes they don't.

All nature seems at work.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."