Quotes About Work

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

There's nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I've put a shift in, feeling that I've pushed myself to the max.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.

I feel like, in Boston, I was a little too complacent. I could get on stage when I wanted. I didn't feel like I was pushing myself. I could get work in New England and not have to travel too much.

You're part of the team and you just need to accept that in the moment you need to work to get back in the team and be back involved with everybody and keep pushing yourself.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

I loved working on 'The Flash.' I love the team there.

If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats.

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

I just go to work, come home. And my wife lets me throw my clothes on the floor, and she doesn't say anything, so I must be making some money.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.

I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.

I travel so much for work that when I fly, I prefer to travel light and bring a carry-on bag that I don't need to check.