Top 1200 Work Habits Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

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

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

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

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.

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

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 laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

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.

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

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

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 think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

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.

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 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.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.

I think educating children at pre-school age is vital because then they are picking up good habits that become part of their lifestyle, so it's never going to be a big issue for them to have to learn how to do it.

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

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.

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

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.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

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.

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

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.'

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.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

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.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

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

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

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.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy habits, versus interventions needed later in life.

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

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

You must come to Jesus if you want to go to Heaven. He will change your nature; He will change all evil habits.

I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their talents to the project. So I like it when the makeup artist has a chance to do their work, when the dresser does their work, when the director does their work. They all come with stories and ideas to think about.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

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 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.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.