Quotes About Work

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I was enthusiastic about Monday morning from the day I left college.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.