Work Quotes

• It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Work
  • Direction
  • Director

• It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Work

• I need to work to support my family.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Work
  • Support
  • My Family

• Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Work

• It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Work
  • Believed
  • Occasion

• My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Wife

• Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Work
  • Cold

• Hollywood was already changing when I went there in 1968. I love American directors. I would love to work for Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese. But they don't need European actresses.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Hollywood
  • European
  • Martin Scorsese

• Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Job
  • Skills

• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

  

  Rumi
  • Made
  • Everyone
  • Particular

• What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

  

  Claire Denis
  • People
  • Work

• Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Melinda Gates

• I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

  

  Erin Heatherton
  • Charity
  • Involved
  • Dresses

• When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

  

  Scott Brooks
  • Work
  • Sick

• I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

  

  Simon Spurr
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Live
  • Family
  • Culture

• I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

  

  George Shearing
  • Work
  • Road
  • Week off

• I'm work to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

  

  Adrian Chiles
  • Work
  • Building

• I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

  

  Nicola Cornick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Hard

• In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • America
  • Management
  • Development

• Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Work
  • Same
  • Preparation

• I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hollywood

• You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're not 100 percent sure if what you wrote is actually going to work.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Work
  • Film
  • Television

• People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

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