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Quotes About Work

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.
~ Jason Momoa
When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.
~ Jay Leno
I don't consider myself as very talented. If I don't work, I'll be very bad.
~ Jean-Sebastien Giguere
You might be a redneck if you work with a shirt off... and so does your husband.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.
~ Jeff Goldblum
More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
~ Jeff Sessions
I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.
~ Jenny Hval
I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.
~ Jill Stuart
My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
~ Jim Evans
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
~ John C. Reilly
There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.
~ John C. Reilly
I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.
~ John C. Reilly
Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.
~ John Medina
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.
~ John Piper
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
~ John Piper
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
~ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
~ Kobe Bryant
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
~ Pope Francis
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
~ S. Truett Cathy
Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
~ Anne Hathaway
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
~ Coco Lee