My Work Quotes

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.