981 private quotes tagged work

“It will work. I am a marketing genius.” — Paris Hilton

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

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“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?” — Cate Blanchett

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“When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.” — Norman Douglas

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“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.” — J. K. Rowling

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“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“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.” — Pamela Anderson

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“I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.” — Danny Kaye

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“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.” — J. K. Rowling

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“I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.” — Ted Nugent

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“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.” — Meryl Streep

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“The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.” — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.” — William Hague

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“I think I can work with any type of actor.” — Ang Lee

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“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.” — Keith Richards

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“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.” — Gilbert Parker

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“Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.” — Mel Brooks

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“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.” — Edward Hopper

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“The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'” — Matthew Macfadyen

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“The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.” — Ang Lee

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“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.” — Bo Bennett

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“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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