Top 1200 Going To Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You can put in all the plays in the world, but if a guy is not executing it's not going to work.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

If I see an open shot, I'm going to go shoot it. That's what I work for.

All the actor does is, he tries to get as many takes as he can out of the director that day. So he can walk away and say to himself, "Hey, it's in there. I'm not going to edit it. I'm not going to make those choices. If they want to blow it, it's fine. But I've done all I can." You're right. I'm always amazed when actors bash films as if those grips and that cinematographer didn't work hard enough.

I have to continue to work, to keep going, to always fight. This is the way.

I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.

Trying to make programs that are all things to everyone is not going to work.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

I think one of the things that might distinguish me is when I'm going to work as an actor I really try not to worry about my own personal hang-ups and just really concentrate on the work. Because I have such a respect for acting, which is something I feel like I'm constantly learning how to do, that all of my energy is always focused on the acting itself.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

You never know how your work is going to be received.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

I think, initially, my rebellion, my rebellion of going to college when my dad would have liked me to stay home and work in the herbs, I think that it was a pretty mild rebellion in the sense that I thought, 'Well, I'm going to go learn how to be a music teacher so that I can come home and do choir.'

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

Work doesn't have to be great in order to dignify it as work. Work just is. It's quite value-neutral. The issue is about what kinds of power and control you have at work as a human being. That's the commonality. It's not necessarily what the task is.

People who work for me know that they have a lot of autonomy. I like to know what's going on, and I'll offer my opinion, but I want people to feel that they can say to me, "That's great that you have that opinion, but, no, we're not going to do that."

Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.

I'm going back to work with AC/DC, I don't care who likes it or who doesn't.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

I'll continue to work hard, and if I do that, good things are going to happen.

God has a plan for me and I know that it's all going to work out.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.

I'm probably going to have to work hard on my right knee for the rest of my career.

When you do something in your life and you know it's going to work, you have to be optimistic.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

If you feel like it's going to work, do it. If it doesn't, get out as quick as you can.

Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

170 is not a popularity contest. 170 is a working man's weight class where you work hard, you get your rewards whereas at lightweight, it wasn't the same. You could work as hard as you want, win as many fights as you want, and there's no promise what you're going to get out of it.

Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

I think I'm a guy who is going to come in and work hard from Day One.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

If there's not a message that people care about, they're not going to work on the campaign.

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

The one thing I've always done is work hard. That's not going to change.

Most celebrities are not going to admit they had work done.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

It's nice going to work and not having to always get on a plane to do it.

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.

Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

I'm not going to shout at the cameras. I just work hard and fight and that is all I can do and all I can be.