Top 100 To Work Quotes
#1. My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
Anita Roddick
#2. I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.
Kevin Conroy
#3. And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#4. It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.
Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.
Therone Shellman
#5. The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.
Arlen Specter
#6. We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.
George Pataki
#7. I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
#8. You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.
Sarah Hall
#9. In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.
Zhou Xun
#10. We choose not to work when we should be looking for jobs.
J.D. Vance
#11. Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation ... until you have ... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.
Marcus Garvey
#12. Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.
Ray Harryhausen
#13. What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.
John Piper
#14. We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.
Ruben Hinojosa
#15. I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.
Marcus Giles
#16. In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them.
Mason Cook
#17. I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
John James Audubon
#18. There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
Bill Sienkiewicz
#19. Especially begging, on the part of one able to work, is not only the sin of slothfulness, but a violation of the duty of brotherly love according to the Apostle's own word.
Max Weber
#20. The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display.
Steven Magee
#21. I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#22. I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls.
Henning Mankell
#23. When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
Astro Teller
#24. I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I'm part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.
John Todd
#25. I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.
John Breaux
#26. You're always telling me to be more assertive and speak my mind. This is what I look like when I speak my mind. I can drink what I like, I can work where I want to work, I can have sex with anyone I want to have sex with. I don't need public approval.
Anonymous
#27. Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.
Madeleine L'Engle
#28. Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz
Lance Armstrong
#29. People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
Daphne Guinness
#30. Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.
Michelle Obama
#31. They want to live forever but still can't see that for that to work they need to change color and number. But it's already happening.
Yuri Herrera
#32. If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.
Alanis Morissette
#33. I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black
#34. If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF
Michael Ealy
#35. It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.
Harrison Ford
#36. Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Bruce Lee
#37. The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money ... but never learn to have money work for them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#38. In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.
Joel Garreau
#39. You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.
Jackie Earle Haley
#40. When a team has to work over a weekend, make a high priority of being there as well, even if it's just to stop by and buy them a meal to show your appreciation.
Scott Weiss
#42. I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.
Regina Spektor
#43. The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
Carmelo Anthony
#44. The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.
Brian Tracy
#45. God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem ...
George W. Bush
#46. There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
Amanda Schull
#47. Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
Graham Greene
#48. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
James Badge Dale
#49. I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson
#50. Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.
William Monahan
#51. It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.
Robbie Lawler
#52. Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.
Evan Esar
#53. To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.
Jessica Zafra
#54. There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.
Romeo Dallaire
#55. Kurt Angle and Randy Orton were great guys to work with. The Undertaker was great to work with, believe it or not, because of the height difference. But overall, my number one choice is Eddie Guerrero, and that's because without him, Rey Mysterio wouldn't be at the level that he was in WWE.
Oscar Gutierrez
#56. I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.
Jessica Szohr
#57. I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.
Georgette Mosbacher
#58. You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
Arundhati Roy
#59. I would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears Calvin Klein? I'm not dissing him. I think he's built an amazing, respectable business, but I would never want to work for Calvin Klein, ever.
Kelly Cutrone
#60. Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You've got to do for yourself all the seeking and finding concerned with what you want to do. Anyone but yourself is useless to you there.
Eugene O'Neill
#61. I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
Ben Barnes
#62. Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"
Rose chuckled.
"But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.
Mitch Albom
#63. Bones smiled. Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.
Jeaniene Frost
#64. She would have to work alone, and she was fine with that.
Kayla Krantz
#65. The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.
George B. Cortelyou
#66. Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.
Deborah Moggach
#67. We are committed to doing trade, tax reform, infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us.
Kevin McCarthy
#68. Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.
Tim Sample
#69. You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.
Megan Fox
#70. I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
Jessica Lange
#71. I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.
Bela Fleck
#72. I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along with Christopher Reeve. I've been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#73. That a woman who managed to be both a virgin and a mother is often presented as God's standard for womanhood and can be frustrating for those of us who have to work within the constraints of physical law.
Rachel Held Evans
#74. To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
Christopher Alexander
#75. Our body is designed to work for reaching a set goal
Sunday Adelaja
#76. I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.
George W. Bush
#77. You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
Larry Winget
#78. I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop ... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.
Linus Torvalds
#79. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Chuck Close
#80. There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
Cliff Sloan
#81. Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?
Alison Owen
#82. Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.
Phil Morris
#83. Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
Matthew Fox
#85. I'd love to work with Pharrell, but it's annoying because everyone is working with him now, and you don't want to be like, 'Oh, I want to work with you, too.' But he is the dream.
Eliza Doolittle
#86. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
Steve Aoki
#87. Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
Mike Medavoy
#88. Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won't see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.
Daniel Willey
#89. I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
Bae Doona
#90. Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
Jerry Costello
#91. I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to work on poetry every day and I do find some time every day that I can with some exceptions to work on poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#92. Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.
Robin Wright
#93. If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
Iain Duncan Smith
#94. Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.
Michael Jordan
#95. James Morrison just had a new album come out and I think he's incredible. I'd love to work with him, his voice is insane.
Kevin McHale
#96. You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
Tom Stoppard
#97. My first goal was to work up enough nerve to ask some of the most ridiculous questions I'd ever asked in my life. Here's how I pictured that conversation going:
Me: Do you know Gavin MacKenzie?
Country person: Who's askin'?
Me: His wife.
Country person: - vacant look - crickets -
Elle Casey
#98. Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.
Elizabeth Olsen
#99. I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.
Bennett Miller
#100. I was going to the library, too. I'd get my parents to drop me off at the library on their way to work in the morning during school vacations. Sometimes my dad would embarrass me by making me take sandwiches. I was absolutely fine given the prospect of a day spent with books and not eating.
Neil Gaiman
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