Quotes About Work

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

As you work with your associates to help them with their faith, you will save them and also yourselves.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

I don't do well when I don't work.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.