Work Quotes

“The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'”

-- Matthew Macfadyen

“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