Top 100 Your Work Quotes
#1. You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
Lance Henriksen
#2. You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.
Austin Kleon
#3. Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
Tim Cahill
#4. Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them.
Darynda Jones
#6. I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.
Michael Graves
#7. Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.
Jaggi Vasudev
#8. Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
Sadie Jones
#10. When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.
Dhaval Gajera
#11. If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.
Robin Oliveira
#12. Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
Carlos Castaneda
#14. If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.
Jean Arthur
#15. Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!
Samuel Johnson
#16. You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.
Lisa Kudrow
#17. When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.
Matt Perman
#18. You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.
Justin Timberlake
#19. Tiny parasites inside you, big parasites outside you, people living from your work even though they stay on the other side of the world, making you do it by the force of laws and guns. Laws like mistletoe!
Kim Stanley Robinson
#20. Loving your work doesn't mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.
Ari Gold
#21. if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.
Why The Lucky Stiff
#22. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
Thomas Merton
#23. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.
Ken Blanchard
#24. My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long [run], it will make some sort of change somewhere.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#25. The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
Steven Pressfield
#26. When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
Thomas Mars
#27. 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
#28. If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
Jack Kerouac
#30. People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'
Teller
#31. When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
Sia Furler
#32. Music should make the spirit soar, take the breath away, touch the soul. Your work was just ... pleasant tones, adequately performed.
Brian Herbert
#33. Look at yourself, you're old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#34. If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa
Maria Renteria
#35. Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
Brendan Behan
#36. Don't worry about unity from piece to piece - what unifies all of your work is the fact that you made it.
Austin Kleon
#37. The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
Henry Ford
#38. If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.
Peter Megargee Brown
#39. Work that only comes from the head isn't any good ... You need to find a way to bring your body into your work ... If we start going through the motions, if we strum a guitar, or shuffle sticky notes around a conference table, or start kneading clay, the motion kickstarts our brain into thinking.
Austin Kleon
#40. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.
John Waters
#41. I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt
#42. It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.
Vironika Tugaleva
#43. If you're going to fall out of love with public approval, something interesting will happen: people will be deeply attracted to your work.
Jeff Goins
#44. Book buying is a relationship activity, and you need a means to develop relationships with readers and new fans of your work
Barb Drozdowich
#45. I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
Judd Nelson
#46. My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze
Brandon Sanderson
#47. You have your real life and then you have your work.
Rachel Weisz
#48. To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
Jessica Lange
#49. One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#50. It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work ...
Spike Lee
#51. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
Sara Sheridan
#52. No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.
Orison Swett Marden
#53. Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#54. I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#55. Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
Uri Geller
#56. You will not achieve work/life balance as long as you believe there is a difference between the two. When you find life in your work and work with your life, you will have only life.
Alan Cohen
#57. 'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.
Richard Rogers
#58. Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.
Kadir Nelson
#59. Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.
Adolf Hitler
#60. As I found, if you complete your work more efficiently, your reward is more billable work, not more leisure time. However, once you're comfortable with the facts of a case, you simply lack the incentive to resolve the case, since you'll just have to start the arduous task of learning a new case.
WIlliam R. Keates
#61. I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.
Kalup Linzy
#62. I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems ... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.
Madonna Ciccone
#63. In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
Christian Louboutin
#65. I don't believe too much in originality ... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.
Paterson Ewen
#66. Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
#67. I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.
Nolan Gould
#69. It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
Cate Blanchett
#70. Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#71. If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
Wu Guanzhong
#72. It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
Jared Harris
#73. If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!
Elizabeth George
#74. Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
John Scalzi
#75. If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen Sondheim
#76. I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.
Sandra Oh
#79. Let your work speak for itself:
If poor, it will remain silent.
If average, it will whisper.
If good, it will talk.
If great, it will shout.
If genius, it will sing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#80. In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work - let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!
B.K.S. Iyengar
#81. A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue
doing it if you won the lottery.
Dennis Prager
#82. Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
Inga Muscio
#83. I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.
Julian Schnabel
#84. Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.
Austin Kleon
#85. I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.
Holly Black
#86. Teaching people doesn't subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it. When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work. People feel closer to your work because you're letting them in on what you know.
Austin Kleon
#87. You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.
Lynne Tillman
#88. At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.
Douglas Coupland
#89. If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.
Andrew Loomis
#90. If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
#91. Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.
Myles Munroe
#92. I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
A.R. Rahman
#93. The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?
Brandon Sanderson
#94. Girls! Girls! Put some pep into your work. How would you act, for instance, if I told you that all for your salaries were to be raised?
I would drop dead.
Edna Wallace
#95. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
#96. Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.
Holly Lisle
#97. So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Diana Krall
#99. Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done." The bastard's right.
Steven Erikson
#100. A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.
Marty Nemko
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