Work Quotes

• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Art
  • Perspective
  • Canvas

• I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Reality
  • Fashion
  • Justice

• I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Time
  • Work
  • Light

• A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Business
  • Star
  • Luck

• Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Work
  • Important

• 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

• The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Men
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Inspiration is nothing without work.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

  

  Denis Kearney
  • Work
  • Sex

• Dealing with boys at work and being the only girl can be challenging. I have my insecurities, but I've learned I have to be a good sport. I have to be able to take certain jokes and not take them personally. There are jokes made almost every second of the day. I had to develop a tough hide. You know, the music industry is dominated by guys.

  

  Shakira
  • Good
  • Music
  • Girl

• A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Up
  • Humble
  • Surfing

• Niven made a name for himself as a hard SF author, which is to say, someone whose SF provides enough technical detail that the reader can be certain that various mechanisms and events couldn't work the way the author has them working.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Work
  • Author

• There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Work

• I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Work
  • Lesson
  • Circumstance

• My mum has always been a huge inspiration for me and my work. She loves fashion and has always been so supportive.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration
  • Mum

• If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Organization

• Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

  

  Alma Gluck
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Small
  • Beginning
  • Superhero

• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from. Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was, I knew who she was and, to see her finally make it, I was so happy. If we were to work together that would be cool.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • She
  • Together
  • Happy

• If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Work

• Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Work
  • Qualified
  • Perspectives

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