Top 1200 Work To Be Done Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.

My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.

I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.

I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.

I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

You aren't what's been done to you but what Jesus has done for you. You aren't what you do but what Jesus has done. What you do doesn't determine who you are. Rather, who you are in Christ determines what you do.

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

I'm eager to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get things done for the people of California and the nation.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

If I have done well in 'Dilwale' and if people like my work, then that would make me very happy.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

So much is wrapped up in our work and each book of the Bible points to Christ and the good news of what he's done that impacts the whole of our lives and the whole of our world. When our eyes are opened to see how each book of the Bible points us to the gospel, the relevance to our work and the need for this good news to enter into our work becomes increasingly evident.

My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off.

Our work is not done until everyone is safe and celebrated not just in San Francisco, but also across the country.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.

I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big Kit.

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the movie.

I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.

I work really hard to keep my life in music focused on what needs to be done and to allow myself the freedom to be creative.