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Quotes About Work

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.
~ Roselyn Sanchez
Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.
~ Ayumi Hamasaki
When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
~ Ridley Scott
Yes, I worked in Montreal. I worked there for 20 years... I came back to Beauce in 2006 to represent the Beaucerons.
~ Maxime Bernier
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
~ Ruby Bridges
When I get in a bad mood about anything, I realize, 'Hey, I'm still working. It could always be a lot worse.'
~ Michael McDonald
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
~ William Friedkin
I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
~ Elizabeth Pena
I am very moody and I work only when I feel like it.
~ Randhir Kapoor
I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.
~ Henry Mancini
'Love Sonia' will always be very close to my heart, not only because this is my debut but also because I got an opportunity to work with Demi Moore.
~ Mrunal Thakur
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
~ Jonathan Tucker
I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
~ Stephen Moore
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
~ Grimes
This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
~ Aaron Klug
I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.
~ Martti Ahtisaari
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the sense that there's some sort of shared experience. There's respect for quiet, more or less, but otherwise, there's activity.
~ Stephen McCauley
I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.
~ Lisa Randall
Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.
~ Gord Downie
Morning is when I do all my best work.
~ Jason Momoa