Quotes About Work

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.