Quotes About Work

No basta que el artista esté inspirado para que produzca. Debe, además, trabajar y trabajar para llevar esa inspiración a la forma perfecta. La fórmula verdadera de la creación artística no es, pues, inspiración o trabajo, sino inspiración más trabajo, exaltación más paciencia, deleite creador más tormento creador.

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç. - Sayfa 12

She felt that if she had to spend another year of interesting, congenial work during the days, and sensitive, cultured, intelligent talk in the evenings, she would go mad or die.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less practical support.

as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand things at a depth I can reach in no other way, pushes me to write and go on writing, even when my wants—for an easier or more sociable life, or one less exposed and fraught—are certainly well known to my rational mind. p.293

Farewell Pony: Our little friend, the Pony, is to run no more ... Thou wert the pioneer of a continent in the rapid transmission of intelligence between its peoples, and have dragged in your train the lightning itself, which, in good time, will be followed by steam communication by rail. Rest upon your honors ... Rest then, in peace; for thou hast run thy race, thou hast followed thy course, thou hast done the work that was given thee to do. - Sacramento Daily Bee, October 26,1861

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Her work suggested that the use of denial, as well as that of projection and introjection, signaled, in the adult, disturbances that were rooted in developmentally early phases of childhood.

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.