Work Quotes

• I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Democracy

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.

  

  Charlton Heston
  • Work
  • Believe

• George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

  

  David Prowse
  • Work

• The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

  

  Said Nursi
  • Long
  • Live
  • Die

• I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Player
  • Games
  • Group

• There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Day

• My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Look

• All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

  

  David Cassidy
  • World
  • Done
  • Distance

• I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Waiting
  • Journey
  • Professional

• I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • People
  • History
  • Cutting

• I pay lots of homages. I wanted to pay tribute to a leading Iranian writer, Gholam - Hossein Sa'edi, who is buried in Paris - he is an Iranian Arthur Miller. He is of a similar stature, and his work is similar to that of Arthur Miller.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Work
  • Paris

• I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Different
  • Done
  • Happy

• Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Up
  • Together
  • Science

• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Work
  • Problems

• The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

  

  Ann Macbeth
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Work
  • True
  • Relax

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Together
  • Desire

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Work
  • Women
  • See

• I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Work
  • Job

• When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

  

  Arijit Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Nice

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