Work Quotes

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

Pope John Paul II

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Jeanette Winterson

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.

Liam Neeson

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Edward Teller

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

Benjamin Bratt

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

Gretchen Wilson

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

Joseph Smith Jr.

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

Elizabeth Hand

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

Arthur Middleton

In this work I have attempted to treat economy as a calculus of pleasure and pain, and have sketched out,almost irrespective of previous opinions, the form which the science,as it seems to me, must ultimately take.

William Stanley Jevons

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Katherine Heigl

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

Gregory Hines

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

Spike Lee

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Theodore Martin

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Saint Francis de Sales

I used to work in this building for years and on returning here I intend to do everything possible to secure normal human life for the Armenian people.

Karen Demirchyan

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Edie Sedgwick

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

George Whitefield

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. Faith works by love.

Jonathan Edwards