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.
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as...
It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife...
After Wings I did a lot of recording rather than live work. I even went into a kind of semi-retirement to places like Spain at one point.
Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you...
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies,...
I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
Anyone in showbiz rock 'n' roll who says they're so tired of playing their hit songs, I want to smack them. I think it's an act. Because, look, you work your tail off to get people to validate you.
Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.
If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.
I'm proud of the body of work I was part of and I want people to enjoy it as long as they choose to.
I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh.
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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.
