My Work Quotes

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

You must always work.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

You don't have to believe in Feng Shui for it to work. I just know it brings me money.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

Man’s works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

I've always thought of myself as a woman who works hard, believes in herself, and wants to accomplish as much as possible.

I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.

It’s the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That’s the feeling I am looking for.