My Work Quotes

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.

The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Work hard or don't work at all.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself.

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.