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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.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

Quotes by Brad Wenstrup

Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

Quotes by Brad Wenstrup

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Quotes by Bradley Cooper

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what...

Quotes by Bradley Cooper

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

Quotes by Bradley Cooper

We've made it to the 1000th episode of 'The Chase,' as the show is so entertaining and informative. I'm so lucky I get to be a part of such a great team and have a laugh at work; I even...

Quotes by Bradley Walsh

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I...

Quotes by Brady Corbet

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

Quotes by Brady Corbet

I never take the comments made about me seriously. I just do my work.

Quotes by Brahmanandam

Since I've started working on my autobiography, I'm going to slow down work. I've decided to reduce my workload by not signing every film that comes my way.

Quotes by Brahmanandam

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Quotes by Bram Cohen

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

Quotes by Bram Cohen

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think...

Quotes by Bram Cohen

In the theater, you get very close with everyone, and you have to because you're with each other all the time. I respect it. It's a challenge, but it's very worth the hard work.

Quotes by Brad Leland

I'm a big Sunday guy. I'll do some wood work in the morning, making tables, cutting boards, desks, whatever with my buddy Adam. I usually start cooking dinner early.

Quotes by Brad Leone

With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.

Quotes by Brad Paisley

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm...

Quotes by Brad Paisley

If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to another city, then do your best to see it. Because I just think that's the best way to have an interesting life.

Quotes by Brad Paisley

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

Quotes by Brad Paisley

I don't think bots work.

Quotes by Brad Parscale

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.