Quotes About Work

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the time. That's something I really love.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.

Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of kids in that movie who I used who have been in other movies since Beaches.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

There's no down time any more.

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.