Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
Yes, I love my homes, I love to travel, I love my family, and I love doting on my new grandchildren. But you can only do so much of that. I don't go to lunch with friends. I don't join...
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film...
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
I like to make things. When you make something, you work it and you work it until it's done, and then you say 'Look, here's what I made.'
You have high school photos and stuff, but to have a recording of your voice and your work from 20 years ago, it's a kick in the head to hear how you've changed and what you were interested in at...
I don't care where you go or what company you work for - and I've pretty much worked for them all - WWE by far is the most brutal road schedule in the world. It takes a special kind of...
Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public.
I'd love to work in England or America. But as long as I'm doing what I love, then I'm happy.
Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.
That's the spirit of America, right? Anybody from any background can make it anywhere with enough hard work.
If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.
Does anybody like being recognized? I understand that it's my job. I'm grateful about people who are moved enough by the work to want to say something. But I mourn the loss of anonymity.
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There's also a lighter side - people unwinding after work to talk through life's bigger questions over drinks. See Effort Quotes and Goal Quotes for more on getting things done.
