Famous Quotes: Work

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
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A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
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You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
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Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
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