Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work.  Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.