Work Quotes

• I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.

  

  Lena Olin
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

  

  Beat Streuli
  • Work
  • Understand
  • Cities

• I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to.

  

  Emun Elliott
  • Up
  • School
  • Drama

• It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Of course I’m going to learn from the greats—Ronnie Lott, Ed Reed, Troy Polamalu. But there’s a lot of unfinished work they didn’t do. I want to be the standard. I want to redefine what it means to be a safety.

  

  Earl Thomas
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Unfinished Work

• My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.

  

  Deborah Kass
  • War
  • History
  • Painting

• I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.

  

  Buddy Rice
  • Work
  • Home

• If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

  

  T. Allen Lawson
  • Work

• For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Matter
  • Connection
  • Changed

• We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not forget about updating our energy grid, repairing and replacing our water infrastructure and sewers, and making sure all Americans have access to broadband.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Water

• When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Work
  • Trying
  • True

• For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Christian
  • Chance
  • Secret

• We work and that is godlike.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Work
  • Godlike

• I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work

• Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Work

• We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Justice
  • Fight
  • Stream

• Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.

  

  Dominic Sherwood
  • People
  • Character
  • Career

• No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Done
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Top Down

• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Brain

• Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

  

  Bob Considine
  • May
  • Wish
  • Wonder

• I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.

  

  Wizkid
  • Work
  • Want
  • Studio

• I developed acne when I was about 19, at the beginning of my modeling career. I didn't have the huge cystic-type of acne, but a lot of little bumps all over my face. They were small, but you could see them in photographs. You can't have acned skin and work as a model.

  

  Jennifer Flavin
  • Career
  • Small
  • Beginning

• Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Art

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