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.
Critique, feedback, reaction to one's work or the way they have presented it, regardless of intention, is a gift.
Vancouver houses one of North America's largest open air drug markets and has a dense and heartbreaking problem with homelessness and mental illness. Those are the neighbourhoods I live and work in.
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I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre...
For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.
More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not...
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a...
Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at...
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising...
As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.
Nothing really prepared me for the amount of work, or the amount of rewards, that came with being a new mom.
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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.
