Quotes About Work

I just work. I'm doing shows, and I get love everywhere I go, so I would say I'm doing something right. I don't really sit here and dwell on it. I just do what I gotta do, and keep moving.

Work is the only device I know of.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

I really wanted to work and become independent.