Work Quotes
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My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.
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You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
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I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
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I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
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It's going to be an election year, ... That means, sometimes, that this business gets right contentious and we have committed ourselves to try to meet as often as possible to try to work out whatever difficulties that we can.
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What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
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I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
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There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
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Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.
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I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
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I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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For the Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first. He has mercy upon the last and cares for the first; to the one He gives, and to the other He is gracious. He both honors the work and praises the intention.
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Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
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My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.
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Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
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My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.
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If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
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It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.
