Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Dave Barry

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

Cesare Pavese

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

Campbell Scott

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

Cathy Freeman

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

Catherynne M. Valente

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

Dave Wannstedt

We've all got a lot of work to do,

We still work as a team. We're always bonding.

Nicolas Roeg

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

Nick Woodman

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

H. R. Giger

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.

Hattie Carnegie

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Charles William Eliot

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

Bob Woodward

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

Billy Joel

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

Billy Joel

Drank a lot of take home pay.

Beverly Johnson

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

Beverly Sills

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?