My Work Quotes
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.
Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.
This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.
Donald Trump is going to work on infrastructure, building the wall. He's going to farm leaders.
Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.
All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.
If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.
Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.
My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.