Famous Quotes: Work

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
Use this quote  

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.
Use this quote  

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.
Use this quote  

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.
Use this quote  

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Use this quote  

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
Use this quote  

It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.
Use this quote  

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
Use this quote  

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.
Use this quote  

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
Use this quote  

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
Use this quote  

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
Use this quote  

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
Use this quote  

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Use this quote  

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
Use this quote  

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
Use this quote  

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Use this quote  

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
Use this quote  

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Use this quote  

Education is a vacine for violence.
Use this quote