Work Quotes
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The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
Nico Muhly
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
Charles Boustany
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
George Bernard Shaw
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As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
Paul Feig
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That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important.
Steve Blake
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I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.
John Dyer
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
Tim Ferriss
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Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.
Rumi
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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 -
If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.
Lydia Millet
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
John Ruskin
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I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.
Brie Larson
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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.
Tim Ferriss
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Steven Pressfield
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To work is a noble art.
Catherine Deneuve
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I hope to work in Indian films again. I would love to.
Art Malik
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We are the party of big guns, fast cars, and hot women. If you can't sell freedom to the American people then you're in the wrong line of work.
Bill Whittle
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I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.
Estelle
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen Barrett
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Berthold Auerbach
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
Ben Affleck
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I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.
Rene Rivkin
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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
Seth Godin