981 private quotes tagged work

“My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.”— Jeff Bridges

“If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.”— William Safire

“When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.”— Debra Winger

“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”— Charles Baudelaire

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”— Meister Eckhart

“I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.”— John Grisham

“It will work. I am a marketing genius.”— Paris Hilton

“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”— Theodor Adorno

“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?”— Cate Blanchett

“When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.”— Gordon Ramsay

“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”— Norman Douglas

“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”— J. K. Rowling

“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.”— Pearl S. Buck

“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.”— Rush Limbaugh

“My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.”— Pamela Anderson

“I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.”— Danny Kaye

“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.”— J. K. Rowling

“I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.”— Ted Nugent

“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”— Meryl Streep

“The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.”— Rush Limbaugh

“Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.”— Charlotte Gainsbourg

“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”— William Hague

“I think I can work with any type of actor.”— Ang Lee

“To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.”— Keith Richards

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”— Gilbert Parker