Quotes About Work

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.