Top 1200 Productive Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his goal - an affluent level of income - solely by means of his labor.

Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I think I did that in my career, in Boston and Miami, being ready to play and at the same time when your number is not called, be ready to support your teammates, go out and be productive while not playing.

Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood hunger should be a national priority.

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

I would fail if I had to work with stars. And I also can't afford to work that way. I can't afford to have special circumstances for rarified individuals. So, I work with actors who have given me a sign that they're willing to work in these more humble circumstances, in real-life locations.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good.

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

I just know that I'mma do something in life. I'mma do something productive.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.

At Baupost, we constantly ask: 'What should we work on today?' We keep calling and talking. We keep gathering information. You never have perfect information. So you work, work and work. Sometimes we thumb through ValuLine. How you fill your inbox is very important.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our continuing to engage our minds and spirits. The key for me is in keeping it joyful as an activity.

For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.