Work Quotes
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
T-Pain
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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
Hannah Tointon
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand
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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
James Purefoy
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
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I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart.
Karen Civil
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When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
Tavis Smiley
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Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
Tasha Smith
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Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.
Ann Macbeth
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I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
John Oliver
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I've done a lot of ensemble work, and I like that.
Jamie Brewer
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In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
Carl Sagan
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Alice Hoffman
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Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.
Joko Widodo
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Any job I do-if it doesn’t work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That’s the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right.
Charles Stross
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
Patch Adams
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Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.
Darby Stanchfield
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I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.
Jason Calacanis
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.
John Magaro