Quotes About Work

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I love having Phil [Robertson] in the kitchen! Not only is he a great cook, but it means less work for me!

So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.

On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]'s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

I've got a lot to learn, and I'm very blessed to work with such talented actors. I'm nowhere near my goal. It's all about applying yourself and taking time to work and train.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

I'm not going to work with a company that uses my artwork, which is precious to me, and not allow me to do certain things.