Work Quotes
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I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.
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My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.
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If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
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You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.
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I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.
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Chaos is a creative place to work from.
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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
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Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
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In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
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My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.
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Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
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I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.
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Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
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The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
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I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
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It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
