“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?”
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“Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.”
“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.”
“That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.”
“The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.”
“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.”
“I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.”
“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”
“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.”
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.”
“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.”
“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.”
“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.”
“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”
“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
“I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.”
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
“If you want peace work for justice.”
“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”