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.”
“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
“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.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
-- David Bowie
“Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.”
-- Patrick Stewart
“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.”
-- William Feather