Quotes About Work

I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I do have a busy work life. So I would say that the positive atmosphere at home combined with the support I receive from my family and loved ones is really what helps me balance it all.

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

I like to work and am a focused person.

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.