Quotes About Work

I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family - you can't concentrate on your work.

I like to have my breakfast in bed, and I use that time to watch the recorded shows on my TiVo. I seldom watch shows in real time - I'm always at work.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I was not performing or recording in the last trimester of my pregnancy but I was working from home, planning my futures projects.

Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.

I'm always working and recording. It's just what makes me happy.

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

If you put in the work, and give your body the clean nutrients it needs to recover and get stronger, then the good days will outweigh the bad ones.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

When you think of fighting, you think of the work that you put in at the gym. Well, recovery is part of that work process.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

When you're trying to recruit a senior product manager from Hewlett-Packard, he doesn't want to work in a garage.

I get to work with the best and the brightest at UCLA. We get to recruit great kids, and that makes coaching very fun for me.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.

I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.

I'm hugely proud to be able to work with Ferrari - such a great team and huge amount of history, especially combined with my dad. I'm really proud to be able to be part of it. All our hearts are very red.

I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.