“And, you know, you try and preach to them there’s more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There’s some dedication in it, some love you’ve got to put into this work.”
– Eddie Murray
“What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.”
– Rick Perry
“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.”
– Brian Eno
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
– Novalis
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
– Tom Stoppard
“Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.”
– Jeff Bridges
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
– Tom Stoppard
“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”
– Caspar David Friedrich
“You’re basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won’t work. That’s why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They’re all religious problems.”
– Jack Kevorkian
“I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I’ve ever done. It’s a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.”
– Galen Rowell
“Avon is a unique place to work we’ve got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.”
– Andrea Jung
“So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.”
– Sheryl Sandberg
“Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I’m visiting.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“It’s continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you’ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don’t think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.”
– Rachael Ray
“I’m actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.”
– Ang Lee
“I work to stay alive.”
– Bette Davis
“Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.”
– Patricia Velasquez
“Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.”
– Constantin Stanislavski
“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.”
– Steven Spielberg
“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”
– Bette Davis
“People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.”
– Henry Louis Gates
“Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
– Theodor Adorno
“There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.”
– William Hague
“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.”
– Kamisese Mara
“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”
– Baltasar Gracian
“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.”
– Donald Rumsfeld
“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.”
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.”
– Ang Lee
“You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.”
– Julie Benz
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”
– Steve Wozniak