Top 100 I Work Quotes
#1. You were laughing at where I work."
"So? You do!"
"Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!
David Nicholls
#2. I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
Lilly Singh
#3. What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
Ted Cruz
#4. I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
Bridget Riley
#5. When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting.
Donatella Versace
#6. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.
Rudy Giuliani
#7. The longer I work here, the less faith I have in humans as a species.
R.A. Wilson
#8. I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
Lisa Marie Presley
#9. I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
Joel Kinnaman
#10. The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.
Joyce Tenneson
#11. I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
Alexander McQueen
#12. I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.
Linda Blair
#13. I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.
Peter Zumthor
#14. I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.
Grace Kelly
#15. I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.
Kellan Lutz
#16. I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
#18. I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.
Marion Jones
#19. Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.
Ben Horowitz
#20. I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
Annie Dillard
#21. Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
Frederick Lenz
#22. When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
Bill Murray
#23. I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett
#24. I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
Beth Ditto
#25. I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.
Terry Richardson
#26. I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.
Cheri Bustos
#27. I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.
Elizabeth Price
#28. I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge ...
Ellsworth Kelly
#29. I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.
Simon Rex
#30. I didn't get here based on lineage, Travis. I'm here because I work hard. The only thing that's blue in my family lineage are the collars. The blood is just red.
Maisey Yates
#31. Understanding the materials I work with ... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
Andy Goldsworthy
#32. For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.
Andrea Anders
#33. I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose ... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
Ellen DeGeneres
#34. When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work ...
Simmie Knox
#35. At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true ... that the material I work most with is emotion.
Albert Paley
#36. Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#37. Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.
Isaiah Washington
#38. The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
Marion Cotillard
#39. I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.
Joan Didion
#40. There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.
Ester Dean
#41. I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
Kathleen Turner
#42. I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.
Charlotte Ross
#43. It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
Lauren Oliver
#44. You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.
Sheryl Sandberg
#45. When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.
Woody Allen
#46. I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions")
Michael Marshall Smith
#47. I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.
Johnny Galecki
#48. I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning, I can write them in the evening; as long as they get done.
Cassandra Clare
#49. I don't believe it's productive to go around and badmouth anyone that I work with, because at the end of the day, we all have to sit in front of each other and agree or disagree.
LeAnn Rimes
#50. You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
#51. I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
Robin Marantz Henig
#52. Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs.
Lynn Jurich
#53. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Stephen Leacock
#54. I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Lisa Bonet
#56. I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.
Criss Angel
#57. I work hard. But I play hard, too.
Pitbull
#58. I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
Anthony Minghella
#59. Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.
Andre Rieu
#60. The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
Russell Simmons
#61. The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.
Peja Stojakovic
#62. I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
Orhan Pamuk
#63. I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
Warren Buffett
#64. The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.
Geoff Johns
#65. But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
Philip Levine
#66. A great free joy surges through me when I work ... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.
Clyfford Still
#67. How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
Amy Adams
#68. I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.
Al Gore
#69. When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
Lauren Conrad
#70. I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made. I think I'm satisfied making as much as I have and I don't feel particularly driven to have more.
Chloe Sevigny
#71. Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo
#72. I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.
Michael Craig-Martin
#73. When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
Peter O'Toole
#74. Balance is everything. And I'm not just speaking from a road perspective - even from home. My wife and I work out of the house and we always struggle to find that balance because when work is around you 24/7, it's easy to neglect the little things in life that really help us to rejuvenate or heal.
Chuck Ragan
#75. The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
Ken Burns
#76. I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.
Emily Dickinson
#77. I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
E.L. Doctorow
#78. If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)
Pearl S. Buck
#79. I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
Paris Hilton
#80. I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.
Adrian Beltre
#81. Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.
Peter Stormare
#82. I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.
Richard Ford
#83. I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Jay-Z
#84. I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.
Milla Jovovich
#86. I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.
Steve Kimock
#87. The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.
Julie Delpy
#88. I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
Gabe Jennings
#89. I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz
#90. I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#91. I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.
Gene Roddenberry
#92. I think people don't think I work, because I wear stilettos and look damn fine. But that's discrimination against stilettos and against looking damn fine! And I object to this form of discrimination!
C. JoyBell C.
#93. Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
Patrick Warburton
#95. I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.
Daniela Bobadilla
#96. I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food.
Eliza Crewe
#97. I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.
Jay Neugeboren
#98. I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
Kevin Garnett
#99. I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.
Radka Donnell
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