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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.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.

Quotes by Julius Genachowski

Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth!

Quotes by June Diane Raphael

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person...

Quotes by Juliet Aubrey

Personally as an actress, when I work on something, that's it and then I move onto the next thing. I'm not someone who sits and watches my stuff. I like to go onto the next thing that I'm working on,...

Quotes by Juliet Landau

I like to read. I go to movies quite a bit. I often go to see friends in theater productions. I hike, stretch and work out. I like to sing. I love going back to acting class and working on...

Quotes by Juliet Landau

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

Quotes by Juliet Mills

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

Quotes by Juliet Mills

We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get...

Quotes by Juliet Rylance

I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will...

Quotes by Juliet Rylance

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

Quotes by Juliet Stevenson

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

Quotes by Juliette Lewis

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

Quotes by Julie McNiven

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Quotes by Julie Mehretu

People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings...

Quotes by Julie Mehretu

I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine.

Quotes by Julie Plec

I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.

Quotes by Julie Plec

Because I was such a student of pop culture growing up, I love that on the list of things that I got to work on in my first years out of college were 'Scream' and 'Dawson's Creek' and, ultimately now,...

Quotes by Julie Plec

I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about...

Quotes by Julie Plec

If you aspire to senior leadership, you're going to have to work hard. That doesn't mean you have to give up everything.

Quotes by Julie Sweet

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's...

Quotes by Julie Taymor

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.

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.