- Focus
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
- Hanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, 'If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.' We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there - the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.
- Early Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020