Quotes About Work

For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.

I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

I've been working since I was 17, when I started playing for Fluminense, which helped me a lot, I grew a lot there and even more at Real Madrid.

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

A lot of the writers I've known for 20 years, who used to say, 'Maybe they're right - the novel is dead!' - well, now they don't feel that it's necessarily the biggest job or most sacred calling on the planet. But it's definitely a real thing - it's always been here, always will be here, and one might just as well buckle down and get to work.

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.

That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothing that's hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I'm lucky.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

I do all that TV stuff, and it's not real work.

To go out on the ice and do some real work, it's been really nice.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

The next generation did not seem to be smart enough to realise that you have to work to be at the top and to stay at the top. You can have talent, but if you do not work hard it's not going to happen.

It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.

There's no better girlfriend than your own work, because when it goes away, you realise how important it is.

Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die.