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.”
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”
-- Vince Lombardi
“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
“I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.”
-- Angelina Jolie
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
-- Confucius