Quotes About Work

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

I don't own a blowdryer - I don't know how to use it. Most mornings, I walk to work with my hair wet.

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.