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?”

-- Cate Blanchett

“Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.”

-- Sally Schneider

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

-- Voltaire

“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.”

-- Ann Rule

“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”

-- Baltasar Gracian

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”

-- Woodrow Wilson

“America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

-- Claire Wolfe

“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”

-- Gertrude Stein

“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”

-- Carl Sandburg

“Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.”

-- Mitt Romney