Will To Work Quotes

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.