Quotes About Work

Dad also has the loudest, stinkiest farts in creation. I don't know how he manages to control them at work, or even if he does, but when he'd get home, he'd let them loose. They'd start as he walked up the stairs. Step, fart.

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

his mother yelled out the door, "Ben! Phone! It's Red." He dropped the hose and ran to answer. "Yeah… what's up?" "We got an anonymous call a while ago. It may amount to nothing and it may not. Captain said to give you a call, that you might want in on the interrogation." "Is it worth anything, or is it just his way of trying to get me to come back to work?" "It's a picture of Mona Wakefield. Damned if she isn

All things foamed and fogged and our minds slept where they stood. There was always more shovelling to do.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

We long to feel good about our work. In his brilliant way of writing, Studs Terkel explained over 40 years ago what people wanted from their work efforts: "It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. . . . To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book."2

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

When you're working very hard you're not lonely; you are the whole damn world.

despite all he had endured as a black in the South in the first half of the twentieth century, he taught the boys that America was rich in opportunities for blacks if they were willing to work.

People wrongly dismiss black achievement in these areas for reasons that can be ascribed only to racism—that our compelling excellence follows from a mere genetic advantage. The fact is that we are good at sports and music because we subject ourselves to unforgiving standards of excellence and then work ferociously to meet those standards. Ruthlessly, we allow absolutely no excuses.

To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

i have a headache i bet thtat hammer will work

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun to have someone to laugh with and have a good time with.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.