Work Quotes
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I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.
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One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.
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Music helps me get into the zone and really focus on being in the moment with the work.
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In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
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At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.
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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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Lord created me at the beginning of his work, The first of his acts of long ago.
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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.
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When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
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There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.
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I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
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Hard work's a good distraction.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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It has been said that work is the highest form of play.
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I like people who have clarity about their work.
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I'm learning that if you put yourself out there and make fun of yourself first, it really does work. People can't really make fun of you.
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You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
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We have a lot of cards to play in getting people to work together, as well as protecting our allies. And, at the end of the day, there is a military threat that has to be posed, and it should be very clear: If Kim Jong-un attacks our allies or any part of America, including Guam, we will retaliate with devastating force.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
