Quotes about Work, page 7

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Quote by Michael Caine about work

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about work

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about work

It was in the interests of setting the theory of reincarnation at rest and disproving it roundly, that I agreed to work exploring the matter.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about work

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Quote by Maria Callas about work

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Quote by Albert Camus about work

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Quote by Albert Camus about work

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about work

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Quote by Albert Camus about work

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that...

Quote by Orson Scott about work

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Quote by Orson Scott about work

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Quote by Orson Scott about work

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Quote by Bette Davis about work

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Quote by Michael Chabon about work

I love tinkering with the web site. I'm a Mac user, and it's fun for me to create a web page with HTML, but I have two kids and a lot of work to do, so it's rare that I can steal the four or five hours it takes to pack together a good addition to...

Quote by Michael Chabon about work

It was a little scary because a similar thing had happened with Fountain City, the failed novel, all sorts of disparate themes running together; in that book I trusted my instincts but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to hang together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about work

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind. ' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Quote by Michael Chabon about work

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Quote by Bette Davis about work

I work to stay alive.

Quote by Bette Davis about work

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Quote by Bette Davis about work