Quotes About Work

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time, and I wonder if your friend didn't find himself in the throes of some sort of upheaval. Maybe he really did destroy his life's work. Maybe he revealed himself with all his inherent contradictions towards the end, and became a true human being in the best sense of the word.

Hay que dejar que los talentos decidan la orientación del trabajo y no al revés, decía.

ayuda a tomar las cosas con otra filosofía, a no preocuparse por nada, a decir "Que se haga Su voluntad". Y es tan fácil vivir sin preocupaciones, haciendo el propio trabajo lo mejor posible y dejando el resto a Dios.

Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment...Where the country could very well shut down and die, and it won't be anybody else doin' it to us, we will have done it to ourselves.

I long with intense desire to move on and finish my work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will in all things.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.