Quotes About Work

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

I'm having the time of my life. I've never looked forward to going to work so much every day. I'm loving it; it's great. It's what I love to do and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.