Work Quotes

"This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it"

Chaim Potok, Author

"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work"

George Peppard, Actor

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"

Chaim Potok, Author

"I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening"

Chaim Potok, Author

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either"

Kim Novak, Actress

"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere"

Kim Novak, Actress

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up"

Susan Sontag, Author

"My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"No man will work for your interests unless they are his"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art"

Maria Callas, Musician

"The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

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