Work Quotes
“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?”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
-- Henry Ford
“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”
-- Michael Jordan
“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”
-- Harold S. Geneen
“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”
-- David Sarnoff
“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”
-- Lascelles Abercrombie
“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.”
-- Tom Stoppard