3 December 2020 Henry Miller The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek If I go on a diet and work out, I’m always in a bad mood. I’d rather be a little heavier but nice.
3 December 2020 H. L. Hunt Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
3 December 2020 Amy Adams I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m a big shoe girl.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
3 December 2020 Albert Ellis I’m very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it – going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?
3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
3 December 2020 Johnny Ball Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
3 December 2020 Paul Coffey Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Jordan Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein I actually may do a musical next year… not one that I’ve written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people’s work and all of a sudden you’ve got a very full life.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
3 December 2020 Edgar Winter I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
3 December 2020 Giorgio Vasari Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
3 December 2020 Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
3 December 2020 Coco Chanel There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
