- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been doing voice work my entire life, and I adore it. It is really rewarding stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you're gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You've got to work on your own car and fix it. It's a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
We work in a shop about the size of the paint department of Richard Childress Racing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never want to just be outrageous for outrageous' sake 'cause then it doesn't work, and it's not believable. You want to be as true to whatever character you're playing.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020