Work Quotes

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.

Hannah Arendt
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

John Sayles
- Work
- Book

I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.

Ansel Elgort
- People
- Time
- Family
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

J. G. Holland
- World
- Work
- Men
People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

Carolyn Chute
- People
- Up
- Why
When I am in Madrid, I just like to see my friends and walk around the city. I go to the school where my mum works and help out. My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

Maria Valverde
- Children
- School
- Friends
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard
- Man
- Conscience
- Breath
As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

Kalup Linzy
- People
- Work