“To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.”

“I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.”

“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”

“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.”

“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.”

“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”

“It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.”

“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.”

“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”

“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”

“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.”

“I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.”

“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.”

“And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.”

“I simply do not distinguish between work and play.”

“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”

“Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.”

“My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.”

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.”