3 December 2020 Mark Twain Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at. I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
3 December 2020 J. Michael Straczynski Never follow somebody else’s path it doesn’t work the same way twice for anyone… the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.
3 December 2020 William Shatner I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.
3 December 2020 Louis L'Amour To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
3 December 2020 Mary McCarthy You musn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
3 December 2020 James M. Barrie Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
3 December 2020 William Feather An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
3 December 2020 Thomas S. Monson 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.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
3 December 2020 Ayn Rand Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
3 December 2020 Tim Tebow I don’t try to focus on anything that doesn’t affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I’m just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.
3 December 2020 Michelle Obama We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
3 December 2020 Indira Gandhi There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there.
