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Quotes About Work

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
~ Rutger Hauer
Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.
~ Rutger Hauer
Collaboration is when you find somebody who, literally, complements and gets you that you can work with. Collaboration is when you really, really want to work with somebody.
~ Ruthie Henshall
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
~ Ryan Adams
I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.
~ Ryan Kwanten
My life is very much consumed with work.
~ Ryan Kwanten
Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me.
~ Ryan Kwanten
They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
~ S. E. Hinton
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
~ Sally Field
Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
~ Sally Phillips
I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.
~ Sally Phillips
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
~ Salman Rushdie
I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
~ Salman Rushdie
Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
~ Sam Altman
Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
~ Sam Altman
The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.
~ Sam Altman
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
~ Sam Elliott
Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.
~ Sam Huntington
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.
~ Sam Keen
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
~ Samantha Bond
The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
~ Samantha Bond
The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.
~ Samantha Hunt
I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
~ Samm Levine
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
~ Samuel Goldwyn