Work Quotes
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.”
-- Warren Beatty
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”
-- Arthur Conan Doyle
“I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.”
-- Edgar Winter
“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.”
-- Bo Bennett
“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
-- Lady Gaga