It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Votes: 6
Thomas JeffersonOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Votes: 5
Thomas A. EdisonOpportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Votes: 4
Ann LandersIf you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. Votes: 4
Michael JordanPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Votes: 4
Frederick DouglassFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Votes: 4
Theodore RooseveltBut I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. Votes: 3 Alan Bean
Frank liked administrative work and was good at it. Votes: 3 Denis Norden
I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many. Votes: 3 Crystal Woods
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse. Votes: 5 Samuel Smiles
Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty. Votes: 3 Frank Miller
Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solelyfrom my own ambition and hard work, but also from those that have encouraged,supported and challenged me. Success is never, ever a one person job. Votes: 3 T.S. Tate
People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. Votes: 4 Joey Adams
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.' Votes: 1 Caroline Knapp
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. Votes: 1 Alanis Morissette
It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. Votes: 1 Matt Mullenweg
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Votes: 1 Alain Prost
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work. Votes: 2 Vint Cerf
On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little. Votes: 1 Gustav Klimt
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. Votes: 1 Michael Jordan
I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room. Votes: 1 Karan Johar
I had to create some good work habits and attitude. Votes: 3 S. Truett Cathy
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them. Votes: 1 Ian Mckellen
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else. Votes: 7 Alan Sugar
It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there! Votes: 3 Chaske Spencer
Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. Votes: 4 Paul Simon
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life. Votes: 1 Jason Calacanis
A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. Votes: 4 P. J. O'Rourke
Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational. Votes: 3 Neil Strauss
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. Votes: 3 Gary Snyder
I like to exercise in the morning before work. It puts me in a good mood, which makes my coworkers happy, and jump-starts my brain, which makes me happy. Votes: 1 Betsy Beers
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. Votes: 1 Evan Hunter
All office workers are afraid of being late for work. Votes: 3 Stefan Zweig
Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust. Votes: 1 Kelly Rowan
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. Votes: 1 Markus Wolf
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going. Votes: 1 Harriet Harman
I think the best place to work in football is England. Votes: 3 Jose Mourinho
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it! Votes: 4 Marie Corelli
Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there. Votes: 3 Jim Rohn
I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it. Votes: 3 Mary Quant
Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed. Votes: 3 Robert Breault
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting. Votes: 3 Gwyneth Paltrow
I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful. Votes: 3 Adrian Chiles
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends. Votes: 1 Penn Jillette
Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in. Votes: 2 Greg Brenneman
When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation. Votes: 3 Tom Hodgkinson
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. Votes: 2 Lydia Lunch
Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive. Votes: 3 Jørgen Leth
I do have a busy work life. So I would say that the positive atmosphere at home combined with the support I receive from my family and loved ones is really what helps me balance it all. Votes: 3 Josie Ho
I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous. Votes: 4 Michael Stuhlbarg
When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work. Votes: 3 Giles Duley
We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. Votes: 1 Iain Duncan Smith
Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will. Votes: 1 Kara Swisher
You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it. Votes: 2 Doris Roberts
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. Votes: 2 Stephen Covey
Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children. Votes: 1 Richard MacDonald
I love to eat and I love sweets... like chocolate. But I do work out. Votes: 1 Alessandra Ambrosio
When I was asked to write an article about what it was like to work with my husband on a TV show, I assumed it was because people thought it would be titillating. He's a creator/writer/producer, I'm an actress; there must be lots of gossip, in-fighting, maybe some crazy-sexy time on the set, right? Actually, it's pretty tame. Votes: 1 Christa Miller
The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love. Votes: 0 Paul of the Cross
I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift. Votes: 4 John Ortberg
The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. Votes: 3 Robert Kiyosaki
I never worked in a coffee shop and I don't drink coffee, so I never thought I would become a coffee pusher on TV. Votes: 2 Scott Patterson
Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked. Votes: 1 Cote de Pablo
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Votes: 3 Charles Kettering
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. Votes: 3 Brian Tracy
What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. Votes: 1 Susan George
I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward. Votes: 3 Roy Blunt
I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting. Votes: 1 Kip Moore
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics. Votes: 3 Sheldon Lee Glashow
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it! Votes: 1 Patrick Duffy
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky. Votes: 3 Flannery O'Connor
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. Votes: 5 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown. Votes: 4 Ze Frank
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. Votes: 1 Russell Crowe
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. Votes: 4 James A. Baldwin
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. Votes: 4 Tim Murphy
We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an enabling environment for private initiative to create market opportunities for Decent Work. Votes: 4 Juan Somavia
What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions. Votes: 1 Jim Yong Kim
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work. Votes: 1 Adam Ant
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work. Votes: 2 Arthur Conan Doyle
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. Votes: 1 K. Eric Drexler
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. Votes: 4 Timothy Noah
Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time. Votes: 1 Vladimir Potanin
All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work. Votes: 4 Colin R. Davis
I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end. Votes: 3 Michelle Rodriguez
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. Votes: 1 Erykah Badu
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that. Votes: 2 Dweezil Zappa
My goal is to stay happy in my work and to do quality work. Votes: 2 Eve Myles
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? Votes: 3 Jay Samit
I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night. Votes: 2 Rod Taylor
After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging. Votes: 2 Marla Gibbs
I try to work out as much as I can and, of course, eat healthily. Drinking a lot of water, sweating during your work out is good for you, and of course, chasing after your kids! Votes: 1 Adriana Lima
I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work. Votes: 3 Virginia Euwer Wolff
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. Votes: 2 J. Paul Getty
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money. Votes: 1 Stephen Ambrose
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all. Votes: 2 Julia Gillard
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. Votes: 4 Jawaharlal Nehru
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort. Votes: 1 Jamais Cascio
When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you. Votes: 2 Kylie Minogue
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes. Votes: 1 Walter Kohn
I come home more exhausted after a day of emotional work on set than I've ever had in any sporting event I've played or anything. It's draining. But it's also part of the fun. Votes: 3 Mike Vogel
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. Votes: 3 Javier Bardem
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. Votes: 1 Mark Twain
In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way. Votes: 3 Frederick Lenz
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that. Votes: 3 William Stone
It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind. Votes: 4 Anna Paquin
Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work. Votes: 4 Jamling Tenzing Norgay
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. Votes: 3 Maria Montessori
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. Votes: 4 Susan B. Anthony
I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country. Votes: 3 Quentin Bryce
Make it a point to choose the right backer, make your investments wisely, and do the work of the Lord which guarantees exceeding and abundant eternal benefits. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. Votes: 2 Henry Ford
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Votes: 4 Thomas J. Watson
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years. Votes: 2 Vera Wang
At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience. Votes: 2 Charlotte Gainsbourg
My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well. Votes: 3 Matthew McConaughey
I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else. Votes: 2 Fred Rogers
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Votes: 1 Colin Powell
My work and my family are very important to me. Votes: 3 Stephen Hawking
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. Votes: 2 Uday Kotak
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. Votes: 3 J. Philippe Rushton
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. Votes: 2 Tim Bishop
until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work Votes: 4 Randy Pausch
It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness. Votes: 1 Robert Lopez
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? Votes: 1 Jonathan Franzen
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. Votes: 2 David McCullough
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. Votes: 1 David McCullough
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' Votes: 2 Yoko Ono
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. Votes: 4 Laura Dern
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. Votes: 3 Elbert Hubbard
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat Votes: 3 John Warren Kindt
When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that. Votes: 4 Alia Shawkat
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work. Votes: 3 George Kennedy
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work? Votes: 2 Richard Branson
I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard. Votes: 1 Hunter Hayes
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. Votes: 2 Richard Russo
I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work. Votes: 4 Mike McGavick
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. Votes: 2 Ian Hamilton Finlay
I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television. Votes: 4 Andy Cohen
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. Votes: 1 Christopher Hitchens
I don't go to work thinking, 'Right, I'm going to be more heart-throbby today.' Votes: 4 Kit Harington
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. Votes: 1 William S. Paley
The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else. Votes: 1 Jeffrey Hunter
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. Votes: 2 Vidal Sassoon
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? Votes: 2 J. Paul Getty
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced. Votes: 1 Madeleine M. Kunin
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. Votes: 1 Javier Bardem
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. Votes: 2 Kevin Eubanks
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Votes: 4 Elbert Hubbard
I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. Votes: 7 Janeane Garofalo
Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. Votes: 5 Herschel Walker
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. Votes: 4 George Clooney
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. Votes: 3 Betty Buckley
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life! Votes: 5 Malcolm Mclaren
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Votes: 4 Fernando Flores
Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around. Votes: 1 John Boyega
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today. Votes: 1 Peter Thiel
Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right. Votes: 2 Kenneth Fisher
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. Votes: 2 Thomas Carlyle
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy. Votes: 2 Shawn Achor
It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple. Votes: 4 Pierce Brosnan
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe. Votes: 3 Kelly McGillis
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing. Votes: 1 Ashwin Sanghi
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. Votes: 2 Robert Kiyosaki
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Votes: 5 Colin Powell
I want to show what hard work and dedication and sacrifice can achieve. Votes: 3 Tito Ortiz
No matter what an individual decides to become, hard work and determination is very important in today's competitive world. You may also encounter hardships along the way, but you must not get discouraged and you push on in order to fulfill your goals. Votes: 3 Tom Monaghan
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. Votes: 1 James H. Douglas, Jr.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed. Votes: 1 Jeff Goodell
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. Votes: 1 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time. Votes: 1 Walter Murch
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect. Votes: 1 Pat Gillick
I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it. Votes: 3 Marlon Wayans
I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be. Votes: 1 Jason Schwartzman
It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals. Votes: 5 Lance Gross
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Votes: 2 Ray Bradbury
Desire +Stability = Resolution, Resolution +Hard work=success Votes: 2 Narendra Modi
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. Votes: 1 Vince Lombardi
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat. Votes: 2 Robert Griffin III
People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy. Votes: 1 Steve Burke
Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else? Votes: 3 Cory Trepanier
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. Votes: 3 Wendell Willkie
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year. Votes: 2 Will Rogers
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful. Votes: 3 Ariana Grande
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. Votes: 4 Anthony Trollope
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. Votes: 2 Adolf Loos
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times. Votes: 3 John Gerzema
I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through. Votes: 3 Frank Lampard
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. Votes: 3 James Clavell
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. Votes: 1 Jim Evans
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on. Votes: 1 Andrew Weil
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. Votes: 3 Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. Votes: 2 Chuck Close
Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work? Votes: 3 Oliver $
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence. Votes: 1 Millard Drexler
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. Votes: 4 William Hedgcock Webster
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. Votes: 2 Zig Ziglar
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. Votes: 3 David Seabury
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. Votes: 2 Steve Jobs
For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together. Votes: 1 Kourtney Kardashian
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. Votes: 2 Kevin Eubanks
Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles. Votes: 1 Blake Mycoskie
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked. Votes: 4 Olivia Wilde
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. Votes: 1 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Yesterday was my last day at work. My coworkers were so sad they all pitched in and bought me a one-way ticket to Seattle, and a bottle of cyanide in case I get thirsty. Votes: 3 Jarod Kintz
I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again. Votes: 3 David Harewood
I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life. Votes: 3 Riccardo Tisci
The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work. Votes: 3 Arsenio Hall
I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups. Votes: 3 Laurell K. Hamilton
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions. Votes: 1 Wendy Kopp
When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script. Votes: 1 Andie MacDowell
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness. Votes: 3 Larry Page
I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest. Votes: 1 Cory Monteith
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. Votes: 1 David S. Rose
Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. Votes: 2 Mark Helprin
Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week. Votes: 1 Tom Hodgkinson
When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days. Votes: 3 Hannah Simone
I work really long days and I work seven day weeks. Votes: 1 Francine Prose
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. Votes: 6 Zig Ziglar
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! Votes: 4 David O. McKay
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing. Votes: 6 James Belushi
If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work. Votes: 3 Edwin Starr
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Votes: 3 Terry Crews
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. Votes: 1 Joan Cusack
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. Votes: 3 Joan Cusack
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Votes: 4 Terry Crews
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation. Votes: 3 D. H. Lawrence
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Votes: 2 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties. Votes: 3 Nina Easton
You can motivate by a mission or motivate by money. The mission will work. Votes: 2 Ron Johnson
Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience. Votes: 3 Gordon B. Hinckley
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won. Votes: 3 Paul Merton
Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day. Votes: 3 Ronnie Milsap
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world? Votes: 3 Henry David Thoreau
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. Votes: 1 Jacqueline Susann
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country. Votes: 1 Mario Testino
I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't. Votes: 2 Pitbull
If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life. Votes: 3 David Cottrell
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. Votes: 1 Max Beerbohm
I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck. Votes: 4 Prabal Gurung
I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization. Votes: 1 Dave Grohl
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Votes: 1 Stephen Hawking
I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him. Votes: 6 James Caan
The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation. Votes: 3 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. Votes: 2 Henry James
Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way! Votes: 3 Narendra Modi
I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion. Votes: 2 Hani Furstenberg
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. Votes: 1 Tommy Hilfiger
I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work. Votes: 4 Emraan Hashmi
Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. Votes: 1 Paula Creamer
If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's. Votes: 0 Kathleen Sebelius
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. Votes: 6 Alexander Hamilton
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time. Votes: 1 Johnny Rivers
In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life. Votes: 2 James E. Faust
My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back. Votes: 2 Lech Walesa
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. Votes: 1 Mao Zedong
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. Votes: 3 Ronald Reagan
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. Votes: 1 Jim Gibbons
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. Votes: 1 Joan Lunden
A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work culture of the system. So practically, a progressive organization knows that no pressure environment plays a pivotal role to increase the productivity or proficiency of its workforce. Votes: 4 Anuj
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. Votes: 1 Joan Lunden
Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch. Votes: 3 Joe McNally
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. Votes: 6 John Ruskin
Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work. Votes: 3 Jerry Rice
A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times. Votes: 1 Leven Rambin
Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out. Votes: 3 Humphrey Bogart
I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving. Votes: 1 Erez Lieberman Aiden
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out. Votes: 3 Phillip Lopate
My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. Votes: 1 Didi Conn
All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air. Votes: 1 Ryan Seacrest
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. Votes: 3 Maggie Kuhn
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Votes: 2 Stephen Hawking
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. Votes: 1 Mitt Romney
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. Votes: 2 George Halas
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life. Votes: 4 Ricardo Semler
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. Votes: 1 Theodor Adorno
My goal is to stay happy in my work and to do quality work. Votes: 2 Eve Myles
We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible? Votes: 4 Jesse Schell
Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. Votes: 6 Nicholas Sparks
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. Votes: 2 Don DeLillo
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. Votes: 1 Thomas A. Edison
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. Votes: 1 Ellen Glasgow
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time. Votes: 1 Walter Murch
In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'. Votes: 1 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers. Votes: 1 Mark Leyner
The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years. Votes: 3 Gerhard Domagk
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect. Votes: 1 Pat Gillick
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work. Votes: 3 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work. Votes: 1 Reed Hastings
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. Votes: 2 J. C. Watts
I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise. Votes: 3 Chris Hayes
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Votes: 2 Booker T. Washington
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death. Votes: 1 Ezra Taft Benson
I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back. Votes: 1 Lady Gaga
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work. Votes: 3 Cathy Guisewite
There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work. Votes: 2 Sigmar Polke
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Votes: 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. Votes: 3 Christo
Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work. Votes: 1 Tom Rath
I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city. Votes: 1 Alan Autry
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues. Votes: 2 Mike Johanns
As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing. Votes: 1 Hart Bochner
There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. Votes: 3 Victor Robinson
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. Votes: 1 Pope John Paul II
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. Votes: 1 Marian Wright Edelman
I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. Votes: 4 Richard O'Brien
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. Votes: 2 Robert Kiyosaki
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward. Votes: 1 Wayne Dyer
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. Votes: 3 Ralph Fiennes
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want. Votes: 4 Scott Rudin
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all. Votes: 4 Edith Rogers
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work. Votes: 1 Doris Lessing
I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever. Votes: 1 Susan Orlean
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it. Votes: 4 Jesse Helms
I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something. Votes: 3 Mark Cuban
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. Votes: 6 Bulent Ecevit
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. Votes: 1 Barbara Kruger
The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession. Votes: 3 Andy Sawford
Work is valued by the social value of the worker. Votes: 1 Gloria Steinem
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall. Votes: 1 Malcolm Gladwell
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work. Votes: 1 Tom Rachman
The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day. Votes: 1 Natalie Morales
Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women. Votes: 2 Kate Smith
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. Votes: 5 Diane Lane
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next. Votes: 3 Charles Saatchi
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. Votes: 4 Christopher Hampton
In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family. Votes: 3 Hillary Clinton
Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create. Votes: 3 Doc Hastings
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. Votes: 1 Soichiro Honda
When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work. Votes: 1 Chen Guangbiao
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. Votes: 2 J. Paul Getty
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. Votes: 4 Niklaus Wirth
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work. Votes: 1 Tea Leoni
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. Votes: 2 Timothy Noah
Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system. Votes: 6 Narendra Modi
Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology. Votes: 2 Marco Brambilla
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. Votes: 1 Norman Mailer
In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us. Votes: 3 Brene Brown
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. Votes: 5 Henry Ford
But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out. Votes: 4 Edgar Guest
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. Votes: 1 Jason Mraz
No one is right when it comes to destination weddings. It's a big ask, requesting people take time off work and fly off to take a cruise just to see you get married. Votes: 3 Mallory Ortberg
I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible. Votes: 3 Katherine Helmond
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. Votes: 1 Mark Twain
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong? Votes: 3 James Patterson
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with. Votes: 1 Sue Grafton
When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake. Votes: 3 David Frost
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound. Votes: 6 Walter Annenberg
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing. Votes: 1 Inge de Bruijn
We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home. Votes: 1 Ruben Hinojosa
As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work. Votes: 1 Frances O'Grady
I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault. Votes: 2 Liza Minnelli
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. Votes: 1 Clara Schumann
My university work was not central to my education. Votes: 4 Italo Calvino
I learned the value of hard work by working hard. Votes: 4 Margaret Mead
Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. Votes: 3 Irene Rosenfeld
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives. Votes: 8 Brandy Norwood
I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work. Votes: 1 Robert Downey, Jr.
But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get. Votes: 3 Norman Wisdom
I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work. Votes: 1 Ashley Tisdale
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity. Votes: 1 Philip Hammond
I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two. Votes: 3 Sonakshi Sinha
Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for. Votes: 3 Lapo Elkann
I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting. Votes: 2 Anders Hejlsberg
I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry. Votes: 4 Drew Barrymore
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. Votes: 4 Sigmund Freud
L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only. Votes: 2 Sam Claflin
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. Votes: 3 Eva Green
You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home. Votes: 3 John Candy
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work. Votes: 2 Tibor Fischer
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families. Votes: 1 AnnaLynne McCord
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Votes: 2 Barry Levinson
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Votes: 1 Jesus Christ
I had to create some good work habits and attitude. Votes: 2 S. Truett Cathy
If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change. Votes: 3 Chris Guillebeau
I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work. Votes: 2 Joseph Fiennes
Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy! Votes: 1 Hannah Murray
Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits. Votes: 3 Iain Duncan Smith
I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies. Votes: 2 Lauren Potter
Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work. Votes: 2 Michael Cudlitz
There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back. Votes: 1 Said Sayrafiezadeh
Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues. Votes: 4 Paula Creamer
My weekends start at about 4 P.M. on Friday afternoon, when I let go of work and leave my colleagues to crawl through the rest of the day in our New York offices. Votes: 1 Bobbi Brown
There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it. Votes: 3 Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. Votes: 2 Frank Luntz
Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better. Votes: 2 Drew Carey
I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me. Votes: 2 Nadine Labaki
A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work culture of the system. So practically, a progressive organization knows that no pressure environment plays a pivotal role to increase the productivity or proficiency of its workforce. Votes: 3 Anuj
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work. Votes: 6 Jodie Foster
I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions. Votes: 2 Karlie Kloss
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Votes: 6 Ayrton Senna
I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. Votes: 2 Jane Pauley
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. Votes: 1 John Strachan
How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much? Votes: 1 Amanda Crew
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination. Votes: 1 Richard Lamm
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. Votes: 1 Berthold Auerbach
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference. Votes: 1 Gordon B. Hinckley
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. Votes: 2 H. P. Lovecraft
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. Votes: 5 Sonia Sotomayor
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. Votes: 1 Ken Livingstone
I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic. Votes: 1 Steve Largent
I have gotten disturbed at... some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive. Votes: 3 Jamie Dimon
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette. Votes: 1 Judith Martin
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society. Votes: 2 Janet Jackson
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. Votes: 6 Donald A. Norman
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure. Votes: 2 Jeremy Irons
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves. Votes: 3 Andy Warhol
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. Votes: 2 Bobby Orr
Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social media, and say, 'Gosh, no one could have 300 friends!' Well, there are all kinds of friends. Those kinds of 'friends,' and work friends, and childhood friends, and dear friends, and neighborhood friends, and we-walk-our-dogs-at-the-same-time friends, etc. Votes: 4 Gretchen Rubin
Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about. Votes: 4 Tina Fey
One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies. Votes: 2 Mike Judge
Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office. Votes: 1 Chelsea Cain
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. Votes: 2 Richard Russo
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. Votes: 1 Mahatma Gandhi
My goal is to stay happy in my work and to do quality work. Votes: 2 Eve Myles
I'm so not interested in gossip. It just gives me the creeps. I love the work; I love what I do. If somebody sends me an interview that has any connotation of something that's not interesting or genuine, I'm not interested. I really detach myself from it. Votes: 1 Francisco Costa
My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work. Votes: 1 Emmanuelle Chriqui
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Votes: 4 Twyla Tharp
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me. Votes: 2 Rhys Ifans
God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world. Votes: 1 Adam Hamilton
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck. Votes: 2 Billie Holiday
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs. Votes: 4 Paul Engle
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. Votes: 1 Joel Edgerton
At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that. Votes: 3 Kenneth Branagh
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. Votes: 3 Kenneth G. Wilson
We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right. Votes: 9 Donna Edwards
Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with. Votes: 2 Rebel Wilson
I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling. Votes: 2 Francine Rivers
John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning. Votes: 4 Richard Widmark
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. Votes: 2 Chuck Close
Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with. Votes: 2 Rebel Wilson
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. Votes: 6 Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. Votes: 1 David Seabury
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending. Votes: 2 John Darnielle
Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives. Votes: 2 Robin S. Sharma
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important. Votes: 2 Jamie Moyer
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. Votes: 6 Sheryl Sandberg
I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy. Votes: 1 Aubrey de Grey
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Votes: 1 Colin Powell
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. Votes: 2 John D. Rockefeller
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work. Votes: 2 John Lasseter
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Votes: 3 Mother Teresa
The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money. Votes: 2 Robert Kiyosaki
Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster. Votes: 1 Ellen Gilchrist
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Votes: 1 Mother Teresa
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. Votes: 2 Tim Tebow
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. Votes: 2 Tim Tebow
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. Votes: 2 Tim Tebow
As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done. Votes: 1 Jason Isbell
I love all the premieres and everything that goes with it, but my favourite part is being on set and to go to work and enjoy your job. Not many people can say that in life. Votes: 1 Kierston Wareing
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. Votes: 1 Alvin Ailey
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy. Votes: 2 Shawn Achor
I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs. Votes: 1 Ashley Scott
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. Votes: 4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. Votes: 1 Frank McCourt
I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Votes: 1 Rachel Nichols
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights. Votes: 1 Alan Jay Lerner
When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work. Votes: 1 Molly Shannon
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. Votes: 4 Isabelle Adjani
Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success. Votes: 3 Dan Miller
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. Votes: 5 Steve Prefontaine
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. Votes: 2 Tim Bishop
Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline. Votes: 1 Suzanne Somers
You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them. Votes: 3 Hans Vestberg
Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US. Votes: 3 Ivanka Trump
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. Votes: 4 Tom Hodgkinson