Quotes About Work

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

I do my best work under pressure, so I'll nick an artery, and my husband isn't allowed to stanch the bleeding till I've banged out a chapter.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.