top of page

Work Quotes

GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best."
Miles Davis
"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that."
Mike Lowry
"I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of."
John Breaux
"I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."
Mary Richards
"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
Gavin Bryars
"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
F. Murray Abraham
"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use."
Yukihiro Matsumoto
"In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly."
Anita Desai
"My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work."
Kent McCord
"I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film."
Harvey Keitel
"All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard."
Susan Hampshire
"I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."
Bruce Beresford
"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want."
Martina McBride
"A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must."
B. Carroll Reece
"One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company."
Robert Wagner
"I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."
Chuck Jones
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work."
Robbie Coltrane
"See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Joel Coen
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was."
Katey Sagal
"You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves."
Frank Lampard
"Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star."
Lauren Ambrose
"I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas."
Shawn Fanning
"Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Bernard Cornwell
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again."
Ruth First
"Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology."
Paul Nurse
"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved."
Lukas Foss
"Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Cyril Connolly
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?"
Susan Hampshire
"Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too."
Meryl Streep
"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy."
Thomas S. Monson
"I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
Tim Murphy
"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work."
Jeffrey Jones
"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
Ogden Nash
"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax."
Larry King
"I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America."
Pete Townshend
"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet."
Anne Bancroft
"I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."
Howard Hodgkin
"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."
Marilyn vos Savant
"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me."
Steve Nash
"The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them."
Angie Martinez
"The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'"
Dwayne Johnson
"Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."
Karen Black
"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956."
Kenneth H. Cooper
"I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide."
Jesse James Garrett
"At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I'm just happy when people want me to work for them."
Kristin Davis
"I'm just happy when people want me to work for them."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
Terence Stamp
"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."
Barney Frank
"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage."
Colin Mochrie
"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation."
Will McDonough
"I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
40
bottom of page