Work Quotes

• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah
  • People
  • Risk
  • Promise

• Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Work

• I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

  

  Anthony McCarten
  • Work

• If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Relationship
  • Achieve
  • Comfort Zone

• We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Violence
  • Gun

• We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Work
  • Art

• We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Done
  • House

• If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

  

  Christy Mathewson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Sun

• Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Work
  • Preparation

• I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Together
  • Morning

• I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Together

• If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Idea
  • Institute

• I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.

  

  Box Brown
  • Work
  • Pretty

• If you work well, the country will be in good order, and it will be a blessing to the country. The country needs good care.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• I'm a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.

  

  Cassie
  • People
  • Mind
  • Changed

• A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. The continuity such an impression ignores is a literary continuity.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Live
  • Fall
  • Chaos

• I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Work
  • Capitalism
  • Antiregulation

• This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Work
  • Creatures
  • Sufferings

• There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Culture
  • Rock
  • Popular

• When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you're doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.

  

  Roland Martin
  • People
  • Trust
  • Brand

• I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Work

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