Work Quotes About Effort & Professional Life – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Marianne Moore

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

Sam Mendes

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

Roy Barnes

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

John Hench

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Naguib Mahfouz

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Vaclav Havel

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Igor Stravinsky

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Richard J. Daley

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Beth Henley

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

William Feather

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Isaac Mizrahi

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

Sydney Schanberg

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

Bernard Cornwell

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Poppy Z. Brite

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Anish Kapoor

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Edward Tufte

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

Francis Maude

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

Ken Burns

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Rita Mae Brown

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

David Cronenberg

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

Jock Sturges

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

James Russell Lowell

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Richard Branson

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Princess Diana

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

Jane Byrne

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Anish Kapoor

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Harvey Pekar

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.