Quotes About Work

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.