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I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

Quotes by Stephen Graham

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible...

Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Quotes by Stephen Harper

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss...

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

My work and my family are very important to me.

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science...

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I've ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which...

Quotes by Stephen Curry

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don't work on it - at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

Quotes by Stephen Curry

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of...

Quotes by Stephen Daldry

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

Quotes by Stephen Dillane

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Quotes by Stephen Dorff

I don't work for Club For Growth or Heritage.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

As I've long said, the farm bill is in need of major reform. At first chance, I voted to remove direct payments. Both the House and the Senate passed bills that end direct payments, and as we move forward, I...

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Quotes by Stephen Carter

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I...

Quotes by Stephen Colbert

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we...

Quotes by Stephen Colbert

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Quotes by Stephen Cole Kleene

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Work" page?
These lean toward the thoughtful side of work — the idea that "intellectual work is essentially a lonely process," the belief that one's politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable," and an image of people unwinding after work all over the world talking about life's bigger questions.
Is there a spiritual angle to any of these?
While these particular quotes are secular, if you're looking for a spiritual perspective on work, see Prayers for that theme.
Do these quotes connect work to personal identity?
Yes, one of the strongest lines here argues that your politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable" — the idea that what you do reflects who you are. If that resonates, Growth quotes explore a similar idea of work shaping the person.
Is there anything here about effort or persistence?
These specific quotes focus more on the nature and meaning of work than on effort itself, but Effort quotes cover that ground directly.
What about setting goals through work?
For that angle, Goal quotes is the better fit — the "Work" page here is more about the character and process of working itself.

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