“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”

“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.”

“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.”

“Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.”

“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”

“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.”

“It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.”

“The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.”

“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.”

“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”

“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”

“It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.”