There is no substitute for work

Stay humble, work hard, be kind.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that’s nice, we’re also human beings.

I like to work. I don’t like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that’s when your ideas become stagnant.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

It’s great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he’s doing. If someone’s a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they’re doing. You don’t know their vision, and you’re thinking, ‘How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?’

Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn’t win.

Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I’m doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

Ha-shem to do His dirty work, namely, punishing sin. It can be read that Mastema, not Adonai.

People aren’t carved out of marble. We’re all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.

There are very good reasons why neither doctors nor detectives should work on cases too close to home. It warps perspective.

The way I work uses a very on-the-spot flow, and I write the lyrics and the music when I feel them coming.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second

Your work ethic and attitude determine your success.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.

I don’t have to work with superstars – I want to work with cool artists that make super music.

The chips are in production, the machines aren’t. So we’ve got a little bit of work left to do.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Not only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work themselves.

When I work as a beast, I drink as a beast. When I live like a man, I drink like a man.

Trying to write while I’m distracted definitely doesn’t work for me. I’m also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I’ve written to myself, just in case.

Art is right reason in the doing of work

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher’s desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

It’s fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth – in other words ‘we can only afford to have one or two children because we don’t earn enough’. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

With high underemployment – currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours – sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

People work hard.

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money – it is transformative. It’s about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track – one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work – this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can’t be found. Instead, it’s just one interruption after another.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we’re all utterly powerless, that’s the devil at work

I’d go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can’t fill because I don’t understand what this is. It’s like you’re given a job that’s beyond you. And it’s taken me years to realize what works in those big situations

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven’s late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin’s piano music when I work.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain – the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I’d visited mosques there before, but I didn’t see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

I’ve been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn’t do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I’m going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I’ve spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what’s happening in the rest of the world.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven’s late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin’s piano music when I work.

I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness

It is difficult to make political art work

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid

I think my clients would tell you I’m a problem solver. I’m not there to agree with people. I’m there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

I’m not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me

And I don’t watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment

It was so nice to see that the Chelsea supporters appreciated my talent and my work at Atletico.

My work ethic is crazy. I’m a producer, an artist, and a video director.

People still say to me, ‘What, you still live in Mexico?’ I don’t have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don’t have to stop what I’m doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats ‘The Motorcycle Diaries?’

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It’s your work, but it’s your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

In English, I’m a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that’s a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that’s why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

I’m very happy to work for this club, this team, and these people here at Bayern

I want to talk to the audience. This is what I’ve been doing in my work in French forever – talking about small things becoming big problems. I notice all the details, all the tiny little things.

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I’ve since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn’t totally make sense initially.

I am happy at Tottenham. I go into work every day with a smile on my face, and that is important.

For now, I’m just going to keep doing the work and hope I don’t get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I’ll love it.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want

Our work is never over.

We work with broken families and broken people who’ve lost hope and are helpless.

It was a passion from my childhood to work for children, I carried it forward. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I’ve never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, then you’re hurting yourself.

You can’t really predict what’s going to happen. The only thing you can control is your work ethic and how well you do your job.

Recording a song for a film doesn’t take much time; it’s hardly an hour’s job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I’ve to take time out to work on my albums because I’m passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

A baseball diamond is like a canvas, and every game is a work of art.

I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don’t want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.

Modeling is really what I do during my free time. It’s fun for me, so it doesn’t feel like work. I choose to do it.

What has ‘The Patchwork Girl of Oz’ got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz’s creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.

I literally want to work until I’m in the grave.

I am very grateful to my colleagues for their support. There is a big job before us: to unite our party and the country, to negotiate the best possible deal as we leave the EU, and to make Britain work for everyone

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people

I Go On Tour And It Hurts, I Miss The Days When This Was Fun But Now It Turned Into Work

Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.

It’s really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it’s great.

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

But while doing that I’d been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn’t a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we’re third.

I feel like at 50 I’ve decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

Most people who read “The Communist Manifesto” probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of “the workers”. Thomas Sowell

Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves – who are paying nothing to anybody – should be determining how much somebody else should be paying those who work for them

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization – including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain – without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

Words have the power to transcend time and space.

Why do we need to make the rich richer to make them work harder but make the poor poorer for the same purpose?

Words have the power to heal or wound.

Words are the building blocks of meaning, and literature is their most beautiful construction

Words have the power to heal, to transform, to connect us to one another

I don’t. Our Founders wrote the Constitution with every crisis they could imagine in mind. I have confidence in that system. It’s going to work.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God’s will and his grace.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

Every autobiography…becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunities on the table

It’s physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don’t sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me – couple days a month, two hours a day.

There’s this idle feeling that settles when the day’s work is done and you just want to ride around on a bike. That’s the time for sex.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices only as well contrived to their ends as a linotype machine, an antiseptic operating plant, or an electric tram-car, there need now at the present moment be no appreciable toil in the world.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But—there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

I’m very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it’s great to be aware of how publishing works.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

I think it’s nice to work and then have success.

I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side. I auditioned for a lot of work and got some good feedback, and then was told I wasn’t the choice.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can’t cease it.

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work

Being on TV sucks. It’s a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything.

Big time, I’m always ready for TV. I don’t have to edit my jokes — when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work… It’s much more important to write than to be written about.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and never give up.

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships—the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together in the same world, at peace

I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don’t like being recognized in public.

I’m an artist. So if acting doesn’t work out, which I hope it does, I’m probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

Things can sometimes work out if you’re smart, but my greatest virtue is patience.

I’m really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I’m more about the work, and ‘The Big C’ was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.