Work Quotes
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I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.
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Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?
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I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. Then, when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention than if you hadn't done that constantly.
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
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Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
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Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
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Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
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Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.
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The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.
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I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.
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I don't feel the pressure of the market - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to work.
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There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.
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If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
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If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
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There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
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That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing.
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Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.
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The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
Colson Whitehead
