Top 1200 No Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

I work with a lot of spiritual people. Now, when I say spiritual people, I not only work with priests, rabbis, and ministers - there's a tremendous amount of people, shamans, medicine men. It depends on the circumstances, what I'm tying in with that I find to be extremely important to do some type of spiritual work over the items before they are brought into the museum.

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Make sure your work is never results-oriented. The result is a byproduct of the work, in a way.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

I feel it's important, in presenting a work of art, that everything ends up serving a purpose. There are all these variables involved - large and small, obvious and ephemeral - and each has the potential to become an active, considered part of the work. So my goal is simply to approach each step as an opportunity to produce work that carries visual weight but retains this sense of openness and possibility.

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

Running is a huge category for us. To be able to run to work and have lightweight, breathable, windproof materials you can chuck in your bag that work on technical level but also on a lifestyle level are really important to me. I work out - and I think most people do - and I want to encourage women and inspire them in a way that fits in with their lifestyle.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.

I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.

I think the message from me is that you can work very hard, and someday, the work will pay off.

It feels like all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

O.K., my family isn't, like, stupid-wealthy. But I'm coming from a place where if football doesn't work out, I don't have to work at McDonald's.

I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.

Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

My work is my bread and butter and my husband is very supportive; he would love me to do more work.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

I have always said, 'Never stop work.' Continue work and sort out issues simultaneously.

Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.

If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.