Top 1200 Successful Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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 doubt that I would have been successful in my career and happy in my personal life if I hadn't prioritized health and fitness. Staying active ensures mental preparedness and the courage to try new things. It helped me to stay focused on work but also to have fun and try new approaches and explore new places. That's the spirit behind Virgin Sport - we wanted to introduce fitness activities that are enjoyable, accessible and part of your overall lifestyle.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Work hard, work away from the game, work when no one's looking, and just knowing that it's a process. Everything will come at the right time.

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.

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.

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

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.

If the movie is terrible you can have fun. You can joke about it and have a ball. The movie is already sort of established as a kind of extraordinary piece of work even though it hasn't opened yet to the public. It is harder because you can't go against it and you can't be interesting. You have to go with the flow. Although one is very happy to be in it, it is sort of hard to talk about it. It is hard to talk about successful. It is much easier to talk about failure.

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 this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

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

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

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

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

Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.

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 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.'

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

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

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.

I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

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.

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

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.

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

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

They dislike me, the liberal media dislikes me. I was always the best at what I did, I went to the Wharton School of Finance, did well. I went out, I started in Brooklyn office with my father, I became one of the most successful real estate developers, one of the most successful business people. I created maybe the greatest brand. I then go into, in addition to that, part time, like five percent a week, I open up a television show. The Apprentice on many evenings was the number one show on all of television, a tremendous success.

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

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.

No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

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.

I don't like to work. I am not helpless without work. Work is an obsession for me.

Kids ask me about what they should do to make it, and I tell them, 'Just get your head down and work, work, work.'

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

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

A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.

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.

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

In a small club you have to do everything: negotiate with the bus company, do all the contracts, all the press work, all the coaching work. It was really exhausting. There was very little time for other experiences and to see how other coaches work and how people work in different countries.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

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

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.

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

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

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

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

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.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

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.

Obviously, I do feel I'm scrutinised a bit too much and people are judging me. All I do is keep my head down and work, work, work.