“To me, as long as we’ve known each other, I’ve always thought Mick’s most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.”
– Keith Richards
“I don’t think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there’s some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.”
– Emma Thompson
“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work – or worry.”
– Gilbert Parker
“There’s an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?”
– Simon Mainwaring
“But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.”
– David Bowie
“I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.”
– William Shatner
“Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.”
– Simon Mainwaring
“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.”
– David Bowie
“The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.”
– Chuck Jones
“I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.”
– Danny Kaye
“The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.”
– Rush Limbaugh
“I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.”
– Dolly Parton
“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
– Isak Dinesen
“I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.”
– J. K. Rowling
“You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!”
– Marie Corelli
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
– Peter Marshall
“If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.”
– J. K. Rowling
“My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it’s like therapy.”
– Pamela Anderson
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
– Herman Melville
“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”
– Meryl Streep
“I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.”
– John Grisham
“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.”
– Tony Shalhoub
“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”
– E. B. White
“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”
– Tennessee Williams
“I don’t pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.”
– Ted Nugent
“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
– Charles Baudelaire
“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.”
– Pearl S. Buck
“Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.”
– Patrick Stewart
“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That’s not what life’s about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you’re overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?”
– Cate Blanchett
“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.”
– Alvar Aalto