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?”
“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”
-- Barack Obama
“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”
-- Abu Bakr
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”
-- Steve Jobs
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
-- Eugene Delacroix