Ready To Work Quotes

#1. I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way. - Author: Dree Hemingway

#2. I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world. - Author: Joe Greene

#3. When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people. - Author: Kimbra

#4. Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while. - Author: David Eddings

#5. As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? - Author: Lukas Foss

#6. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My cycle had begun. I was now a woman. I was ready to do God's work. - Author: Michele Dominguez Greene

#7. I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it. - Author: Jorja Fox

#8. Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up. - Author: Cindy Sherman

#9. When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day. - Author: Martin Lawrence

#10. I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week. - Author: Paul Madonna

#11. Often, it'a not one great, dramatic thing that God asks us to do but hundreds of little everyday things. If we want to be used by Him, if we're ready to be used and aren't all tangled up with your own plans and projects, then He'll show us the work He has for us. - Author: Lynn Austin

#12. Vaccines are little pieces of bacteria or viruses injected into the body to give the immune system an education. They work by ramping up your own defensive system so that you're ready to fight the bacteria or virus upon first contact, without becoming sick first. - Author: Rene Fester Kratz

#13. Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it. - Author: G.I. Gurdjieff

#14. I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent. - Author: Tom Robinson

#15. I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God. - Author: James O. Fraser

#16. I have the responsibility to work hard and get ready so we can take this team where we need to go. - Author: Philip Rivers

#17. She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political
for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara) - Author: Bell Hooks

#18. I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work. - Author: Audrey Tautou

#19. While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work. - Author: Wooden Wand

#20. I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary. - Author: Kenneth Branagh

#21. We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help. - Author: Marc Morial

#22. We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him. - Author: John Boehner

#23. First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key. - Author: Susan Scott

#24. Being strong was hard work, and I was ready to let someone else be strong for a little bit. Not forever, but for a little while. - Author: J.C. Isabella

#25. In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government. - Author: Jacqueline Novogratz

#26. After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying ... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try? - Author: James S.A. Corey

#27. And there's no way I'm leaving you alone with Prince Perfect."
"So you don't trust me to resist his charms?"
"I don't even trust myself. I've never seen anyone work a crowd the way he does. I'm pretty sure the rocks and trees are getting ready to swear fealty to him. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#28. When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists. - Author: Elie Wiesel

#29. To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun! - Author: Bill Rancic

#30. As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up. - Author: Janet Jackson

#31. It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work. - Author: Andy Rooney

#32. It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. - Author: Gus O'Donnell

#33. My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that. - Author: David Morrell

#34. Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey. - Author: Pope Francis

#35. I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. - Author: Stuart Pearce

#36. I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share. - Author: Joe Mantello

#37. if plan A is not success you need to ready PLAN B but if plan B dozen work then try other bcz alphabet is more and more... - Author: Sushil Singh

#38. We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine. - Author: Mark Hyman

#39. O don't know when you'll be ready for me. It might be next month or next year. Whenever it is, just know that I have absolutely no doubt that we can make this work. I know we can. If there are two people in this world capable of finding a way to love each other, it's us. - Author: Colleen Hoover

#40. I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino, but these are dreams I don't need to rush to achieve. I'll be ready to make those movies when I'm ready to make those movies and they're ready to make them with me, if they ever want to. - Author: Douglas Booth

#41. People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on. - Author: Willard Wigan

#42. I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#43. Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either". - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#44. You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive. - Author: Clive Owen

#45. I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest ... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win! - Author: Ashanti

#46. And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.
Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#47. Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience. - Author: Gustav Krupp

#48. Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work. - Author: Jason Graae

#49. There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard. - Author: Celine Dion

#50. You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.' - Author: John Oliver

#51. I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us. - Author: Tommy Bolin

#52. As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead. - Author: Donald Berwick

#53. Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work. - Author: Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#54. We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the real demand is there for it. We implement the changes before the customers even realizes a need for it. - Author: Eric Metcalf

#55. Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home. - Author: John Wayne

#56. You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter. - Author: Anne Graham Lotz

#57. As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work ... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time. - Author: George A Tice

#58. Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard. - Author: Christopher Plummer

#59. I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. - Author: Madeleine Stowe

#60. It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play. - Author: Jayna Hefford

#61. It only looks easy to the outsider. So if you want this thing called success, get ready to work hard. It won't be easy and it isn't guaranteed. But if you dream big and give it your all, it will be worth it. - Author: James Woosley

#62. I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed ... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world. - Author: Yves Klein

#63. When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it. - Author: Quincy Jones

#64. A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare. - Author: Jenny Slate

#65. Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#66. French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck. - Author: Thomas L. Friedman

#67. I did work at Christie's for a couple of weeks, getting ready for 'The Devil Wears Prada,' getting people coffee and doing whatever they needed around the office. It was amazing. I got to see some wonderful art, and everybody was really nice. It was great. - Author: Anne Hathaway

#68. I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that. - Author: David Heyman

#69. The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace. - Author: Joe Mantegna

#70. I'm not ready for a committed relationship with anyone and that I have a ton of work to do on myself. - Author: Irvin D. Yalom

#71. We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor. - Author: Don Scardino

#72. My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. - Author: Brian Lamb

#73. You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground. - Author: Garrett Camp

#74. My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life. - Author: Doris Betts

#75. I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine. - Author: Donna Summer

#76. One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. - Author: Tryon Edwards

#77. No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it. - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#78. I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour. - Author: Matthew McConaughey

#79. The paradox of vocation. We think that passion comes first, that our desire is primary; but if we are truly called, the work always comes before we are ready. We will have to act in spite of feeling unprepared. - Author: Jeff Goins

#80. The baby, when he or she is ready to be born,
will send a message that tells the mother's body that it is ready.
The mother's body can then begin labour by slowly releasing oxytocin, the hormone of love.
The mother and baby work together to bring the baby into the world. - Author: Ruth Ehrhardt

#81. Some people say you have to work with everything, but there's a time and a place. If it feels like a knot, wait. It will come up again when you and the universe are ready. - Author: Jeff Bridges

#82. Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. - Author: Ignatius Of Loyola

#83. While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God. - Author: Andy Murray

#84. Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready. - Author: Rick Pitino

#85. Funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other. - Author: Katha Pollitt

#86. I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children. - Author: Monica Bellucci

#87. I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it. - Author: Sanaa Lathan

#88. My friend, there is a Hell. It's when a man has a family to support, has his health and is ready to work, and there is no work to do. When he stands with empty hands and sees his children going hungry, his wife without the things to do with. I hope you never have to try it. - Author: Louis L'Amour

#89. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited. - Author: Michael Kors

#90. I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#91. Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows. - Author: Marlon Wayans

#92. I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again. - Author: Ernesto Bertarelli

#93. For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class. - Author: Bikram Choudhury

#94. Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States. - Author: Henry A. Wallace

#95. My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. - Author: Andrew Taylor Still

#96. You need to hit Monday ready to go ... To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, and spiritual activities make you a better worker. - Author: Laura Vanderkam

#97. You should be ready to take advantage of all the opportunities that arise. Accept every invitation. Follow each whim. Some will work out, others won't. But don't give up. - Author: Joanne Guidoccio

#98. Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have. - Author: Robert Hass

#99. India is once again ready to play the role of 'Vishvaguru' and work towards the benefit of mankind. - Author: Narendra Modi

#100. The concept in all these environments seems to be that one needs to complete his healing before he is ready to do his work. - Author: Steven Pressfield