Quotes About Work

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Bones smiled. "Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.