Quotes About Work

I'm a great believer in all forms of energy, but we're putting a lot of people out of work. Our energy policies are a disaster.

When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

I really do work in solitude.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.