Quotes on Work

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Author: Aaliyah

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

Author: Aaliyah

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

Author: Aaliyah

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Author: Alvar Aalto

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Author: Hank Aaron

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Author: Agha Abedi

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Author: Sam Abell

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

Author: Sam Abell

But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.

Author: John Abizaid

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Author: F. Abraham

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Author: F. Abraham

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Author: Karl Abraham

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

Author: Floyd Abrams

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Author: M. Abrams

I really wanted to work and become independent.

Author: Victoria Abril

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

Author: Victoria Abril

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Author: Victoria Abril

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Author: Kathy Acker

You know I've had work banned.

Author: Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Author: Kathy Acker

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Author: Kathy Acker

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Author: Amy Adams

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

Author: Amy Adams

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Author: Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Author: Joey Adams

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.

Author: Scott Adams

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

Author: Alfred Adler

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

Author: Stella Adler

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Author: Theodor Adorno

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Author: Louis Agassiz

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Author: Gianni Agnelli

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Author: Christina Aguilera

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

Author: Jenny Agutter

While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

Author: Clay Aiken

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Author: Alvin Ailey

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

Author: Josef Albers

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Author: Marv Albert

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Author: Mitch Albom

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Author: Mitch Albom

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Author: Louisa Alcott

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Author: Alan Alda

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.

Author: Brian Aldiss

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Author: Sholom Aleichem

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Author: Alexander Alekhine

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Author: Christopher Alexander

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Author: Jason Alexander

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

Author: Jason Alexander

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

Author: Khandi Alexander

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

Author: Sasha Alexander

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.

Author: Hannes Alfven

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.

Author: J Allard

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.

Author: Lucille Allard

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

Author: William Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Author: William Allard

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Author: William Allard

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

Author: Charles Allen

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Author: Debbie Allen

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Author: Gracie Allen

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Author: James Allen

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Author: James Allen

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

Author: Marcus Allen

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

Author: Paul Allen

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Author: Tom Allen

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

Author: Tom Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Author: Woody Allen

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Author: GG Allin

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

Author: Mose Allison

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

Author: Mose Allison

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

Author: Herb Alpert

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Author: Sidney Altman

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

Author: Sidney Altman

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Author: Sidney Altman

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Author: Henri Amiel

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

Author: Namie Amuro

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Author: Elena Anaya

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Author: Anthony Anderson

If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.

Author: Anthony Anderson

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Author: Anthony Anderson

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Author: Elizabeth Anderson

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

Author: John Anderson

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Author: Kevin Anderson

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Author: Laurie Anderson

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

Author: Laurie Anderson

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

Author: Laurie Anderson

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Author: Laurie Anderson

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

Author: Pamela Anderson

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Author: Philip Anderson

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

Author: Richard Anderson

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Author: Sherwood Anderson

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Author: Sparky Anderson

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

Author: Tadao Ando

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Author: Julie Andrews

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

Author: Julie Andrews

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Author: Ivo Andric

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

Author: Victoria Angeles

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

Author: Fra Angelico

Nothing will work unless you do.

Author: Maya Angelou

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Author: Kofi Annan

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Author: Walter Annenberg

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Author: Walter Annenberg

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Author: Francesca Annis

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Author: Jean Anouilh

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Author: Adam Ant

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Author: Piers Anthony

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

Author: Piers Anthony

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Author: Susan Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Author: Susan Anthony

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

Author: Susan Anthony

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

Author: David Antin

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Author: Fiona Apple

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

Author: Sergio Aragones

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Author: Sergio Aragones

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

Author: Tom Araya

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Author: Diane Arbus

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Author: Elizabeth Arden

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

Author: Dario Argento

There was absolutely no work for Latinos and blacks.

Author: Victor Argo

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Author: Aristotle

It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

Author: Adam Arkin

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Author: Joan Armatrading

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

Author: Joan Armatrading

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Author: Brody Armstrong

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

Author: Brody Armstrong

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Author: Neil Armstrong

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

Author: Will Arnett

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

Author: Gerard Arpey

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

Author: Claude Arrau

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

Author: Kenneth Arrow

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

Author: Gloria Arroyo

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Author: Gemma Arterton