Work Quotes
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
“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
“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.”
-- Oliver Stone
“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”
-- David Bowie
“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”
-- Norman Douglas
“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.”
-- Calvin Coolidge