Work Quotes

• I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Good
  • Work
  • Creativity

• When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Work

• The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Work
  • Appearance of normality

• I think work is the world's greatest fun.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Worlds

• Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Force

• I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Appeals

• I am dedicated to my work, my voters and my family.

  

  Ayelet Shaked
  • Work
  • Voters
  • Dedicated

• Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I love hard work. If I'm not sweating, then I'm not working.

  

  Max Aaron
  • Work

• I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Up
  • Words
  • Interesting

• Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Work

• Getting work is not tough, but to work with people I always wanted to is difficult.

  

  Aditi Rao Hydari
  • Work
  • Difficult
  • Wanted

• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Work
  • Customers
  • Invention

• As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • People
  • Science
  • Alcohol

• If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

  

  Nina Totenberg
  • Work
  • Think
  • Dress

• A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Different
  • Done
  • Dying

• I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Work

• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

  

  David R. Brower
  • Work

• You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Joy

• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • People
  • Political
  • Problem

• My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• Everyone needs different things. That's why trading works.

  

  Wang Yi
  • Work
  • Needs
  • Trading

• When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

  

  Judd Hirsch
  • Chance
  • Doing
  • Drop

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