Quotes About Work

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

On a movie, you have a great time, and you're really enjoying the work, and then everybody is done and goes their separate ways, and you maybe never get to work with those people again.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Hope for the best and work for it.

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.