Work Quotes

“You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.”

-- Johnny Depp

“I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.”

-- E. O. Wilson

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

-- Frederick Douglass

“You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”

-- Mary McCarthy

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

-- Novalis

“Work alone is noble.”

-- Thomas Carlyle

“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.”

-- Samuel Butler

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

-- T. S. Eliot

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

-- Andy Warhol

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

-- Vince Lombardi