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Quotes About Work

I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
~ Jeff Koons
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
~ Agnes Smedley
The first film I worked in was Dev Anand's 'Hum Naujawan.'Then I went back to school and college.
~ Tabu
I worked as an accountant in an auditor's office, at a textile showroom, a telephone booth, and a fast-food joint while studying. My dad found it odd, but he never interfered in any of my decisions.
~ Vijay Sethupathi
Being on a film set, you are always around such fantastic people. And I feel like I've been lucky. I feel like I've worked with the best of the best.
~ Tom Holland
To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living.
~ Li Ziqi
It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.'
~ Harlan Ellison
My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!
~ Richard Hammond
I have worked with some of the most important players, like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Zidane, but the best are easy to work with because they are so professional. Their winning mentality, professionalism, helps the manager. Of course, sometimes I become angry, but usually my relationship with the players is calm.
~ Carlo Ancelotti
I believe Colorado needs representation from a conservative who has worked his way through the types of obstacles with which nearly all middle-class and lower-income people struggle.
~ Darryl Glenn
As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.
~ Jon Ossoff
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
~ Johnny Cash
A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
~ Felicity Kendal
I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.
~ Mark Foster
I watched my parents. My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school. I always felt that I couldn't let them down. And I had a natural discipline from early on. I was always training for something.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.
~ Margot Robbie
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
~ Denzel Washington
Both my parents worked at the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with my dad eventually being hired by another company called Summit Laboratories that made chemical hair straighteners.
~ A'Lelia Bundles
When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
~ Abbi Jacobson
My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.
~ Urmila Matondkar
I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.
~ Liz Truss
I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.
~ Young M.A
My momma owns rental properties, and my pops worked at Hershey's.
~ NLE Choppa