Quotes About Work

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.