Work Quotes

• All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • People
  • Family
  • Culture

• The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Work
  • Inspired
  • Waste Time

• Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Writing
  • Puzzle
  • Resonance

• I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

  

  Peter Boyle
  • Work
  • Period

• David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

  

  Questlove
  • Work

• The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Work
  • Leader
  • Floor

• I'd love to work with Gaultier, and I'm obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Work

• In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

  

  Nick Laird
  • Work
  • Poetry
  • Mystification

• You’d better come early son because I’ve got a lot of work to do on the property and don’t want to get behind.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Son
  • Property
  • Behind

• Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. 'Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic.' 'Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?'

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sorry

• Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

  

  William Feather
  • Quality
  • Spite
  • Temporary

• I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Work
  • Book

• I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

  

  John Zorn
  • People
  • Work

• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

  

  John Ruskin
  • King
  • Army
  • Treasure

• I do know that I would never - though you should never say never - work with a decorator, because I don't want to see the touch of someone else in my own space.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Work
  • Space

• I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

  

  Alison Doody
  • Work

• The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Universe

• If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

  

  R. O. Blechman
  • May
  • Rejection
  • Magazines

• We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Enjoy
  • Sunshine
  • Cicadas

• A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Computer
  • Software
  • Planner

• What isn't tried won't work.

  

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald
  • Work
  • Tried

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