“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
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win – if you don’t, you won’t.”
– Bruce Jenner
“Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.”
– Sally Schneider
“Fear God and work hard.”
– David Livingstone
“I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.”
– Maria Callas
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.”
– Lou Holtz
“America is at that awkward stage it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
– Claire Wolfe
“The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.”
– Havelock Ellis
“I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‘Let’s Move’ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.”
– Michelle Obama
“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I don’t like to work with assistants. I’m already one too many the camera alone would be enough.”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt
“I’ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.”
– Paris Hilton
“When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.”
– Michelle Obama
“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”
– Meister Eckhart
“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.”
– Oliver Stone
“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.”
– Lady Gaga
“My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.”
– Mark Warner
“It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.”
– Lady Gaga
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.”
– Vidal Sassoon
“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bit bent and it’s a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.”
– Jack White
“Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
– Roger Staubach
“I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.”
– George W. Bush
“Government’s role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.”
– Jesse Ventura