Top 1000 Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

He is one of the finest and kindest human beings I have come across. When you meet him, you will understand why he is the Jackie Chan. It's not just for his work but also the kind of person he is.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

It's not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.

I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.

Everyone has a butt. No matter what size it is, you can work it.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

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.

You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.