Go To Work Quotes

#1. I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Shaun White

#2. People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

Nathaniel Fick

#3. My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

Kate DiCamillo

#4. I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

Lily Allen

#5. I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

Joe Lando

#6. Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

John Dufresne

#7. I enjoyed the crew. The best part about 'The X-Files' has been the crew. This crew is an exceptional family and to go to work with a bunch of people that you really like is great. They're all the best of the best and they really try to do the best job they can. I'll miss that.

Robert Patrick

#8. Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?

Patricia Briggs

#9. I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home,

Damon Albarn

#10. Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

Katee Sackhoff

#12. You wanna know my occupation?
I get paid to rock the nation.
I go to work.

Kool Moe Dee

#13. The question was, What could we do?
Could we get up every morning and take showers and put on clothes and go to work? Could we think straight? Could we not say crazy things when they occurred to us?
Some of us could; some of us couldn't. In the world's terms, though, all of us were tainted.

Susanna Kaysen

#14. Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

Thomas Sowell

#15. Why are they burying daddy? Mummy? Mummy! Make 'em stop! Daddy can't go to work like this!

Hiromu Arakawa

#16. First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

Jean Stapleton

#17. Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

Joel Edgerton

#18. I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

George Dzundza

#19. For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be in my home or take my kids to school. But I realized it really wasn't that. It really is its own spaceship. And I had always been a space traveler.

Michael J. Massimino

#20. I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

Tiger Woods

#21. I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.

Barry Larkin

#22. I don't go to work thinking, 'Right, I'm going to be more heart-throbby today.'

Kit Harington

#23. I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

Romain Grosjean

#24. I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

Christian Bale

#25. I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Dylan Moran

#26. I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

Billy Porter

#27. Are you setting business goals? Try this:

Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.
Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.
Step 3: Let your mind go to work.

Thank me later.

Richie Norton

#28. I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

Bobby Orr

#29. I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

Will Cuppy

#30. People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Dean Koontz

#31. If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

Rashida Jones

#32. Knowledge gives you attitude and carriage which IS everything! A woman who knows and feels she is sexy projects sexy and classy. If you are uncertain it can show. Make a list of those things you feel uncertain about and go to work on getting the knowledge to cross them off your list

JoAnna Nicholson

#33. A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Abhishek Bachchan

#34. Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

Jeb Bush

#35. It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Matthew Ashford

#36. Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them.

Hilary Mantel

#37. Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.

Cassie Scerbo

#38. What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

Jimmy Breslin

#39. You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me - most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

John C. Maxwell

#40. Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Mike Huckabee

#41. I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Judith Rossner

#42. I live, eat, spend, travel, support a family, entertain.....but I do not go to work. There is something wrong. My nest egg just keeps growing.

Manoj Arora

#43. If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Abraham Lincoln

#44. Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

Tom Felton

#45. Yesterday was Sundar, tomorrow is the Spring Equinox, a national holiday. Sandwiched right in the middle of what should have been a long weekend, you're probably thinking "I wish I didn't have to go to work today." No such luck.

No One

#46. 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

#47. My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

Johnathon Schaech

#48. I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

Taylor Swift

#49. Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

#50. My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

Philippe Petit

#51. Monday at 9 A.M. is when people start their workweek," Joy said passionately. "Think about that, George. People would rather die than go to work,

Jon Gordon

#52. Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#53. Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Criss Jami

#54. Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Maya Angelou

#55. I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Chris Gabrieli

#56. People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

John Malkovich

#57. 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' - Lib McGovern

Pat Frank

#58. I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

Reid Scott

#59. This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Brooks Robinson

#60. You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.

Adam Derek Scott

#61. Take responsibility and go to work so God has something to help us with.

D. Todd Christofferson

#62. If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

Charles E. Merrill

#63. It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

Taissa Farmiga

#64. I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting' ... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

Baltasar Kormakur

#65. The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

Seth Godin

#66. I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

Steve Carell

#67. Now that's discrimination - when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That's the trouble with people - they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.

Jacqueline Winspear

#68. How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Don Bluth

#69. Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

Yelawolf

#70. The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

#71. If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

Natalie Wood

#72. I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Bill Parcells

#73. My line of work makes you aware of the fragility of life. You can get up in the morning, eat your cornflakes, blow-dry your hair, go to work and end up dead.

Kathy Reichs

#74. The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Mordecai Richler

#75. Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

Christopher Lasch

#76. The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

Simon Pegg

#77. It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Greg Rusedski

#78. You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Shonda Rhimes

#79. People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Marcy Kaptur

#80. People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Michelle Bachelet

#81. It sounds obvious, but many people endure working at jobs that make them miserable - the only reason they go to work is for the money. And guess what? They never make enough money to get ahead.

Wes Moss

#82. As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

Jim Doyle

#83. There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

Gary Sinise

#84. I love being presented a character that boggles my mind. I have to do a lot of work and explore how I can make the guy absolutely real and absolutely believable to myself. And then, I go to work on doing that for other people.

Michael Marisi Ornstein

#85. Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Charlie Gehringer

#86. Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

Beyonce Knowles

#87. We're a weird bunch at 'Mike & Molly.' We go to work, and we're crazy about each other, and we love where we go to work.

Melissa McCarthy

#88. I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

Andy Warhol

#89. I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

Katee Sackhoff

#90. I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Jess Walter

#91. My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.

Katrina Kaif

#92. I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

Kimberly Elise

#93. A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Chanel Iman

#94. When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

Mike Wallace

#95. That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

Julia Roberts

#96. 'Manhattan Love Story' has a very special place in my heart for many reasons. We were very sad to see it go. It brought me to New York, and there's nothing better than getting to go to work and fall for Analeigh Tipton every day.

Jake McDorman

#97. Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#98. John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

Richard Widmark

#99. I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

Bob Odenkirk

#100. I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

Halle Berry