Work Quotes

• The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Men
  • Children
  • May

• I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Work
  • Done
  • Sleep

• I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Work
  • Single

• I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Period

• In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.

  

  John Ortberg
  • God
  • Why
  • Small

• I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

  

  Jonathan Glazer
  • Time
  • Work

• If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Work

• The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Work
  • Important
  • Kids

• And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Change
  • Self

• As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Planning
  • Drag
  • Fatal

• Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Work
  • Philosophy
  • Way Of Life

• I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • Time
  • Work

• Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Work
  • Power

• The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Writing
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • Art
  • Business
  • Personality

• Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friendship

• I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

  

  Connie Nielsen
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Focus
  • Years
  • Able

• I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Work
  • Art
  • Picture

• If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Work

• I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Ignore
  • Critics

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