Work Quotes
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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
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I'd rather work to live than live to work.
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The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
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Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
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After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down.
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You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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Don’t confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal.
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Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.
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My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
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Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.
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Make sure you are doing something you love to do when working out. Nobody likes to work, so when you do choose a workout, make it something you enjoy doing. You won't stick with it if you hate it and if it feels like work. Find something fun.
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I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.
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All we know so far is what doesn't work.
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.
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In the end, the work shows if you're good.
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If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
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Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough.
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I’ve never felt guilty, by the way, about working. Because people say, “Oh, as a mother I felt really guilty about going to work”. I’ve absolutely never felt guilty.
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Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.
