Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the… — James Salter Copy Share Image
If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I just like to be in the now. And kind of reporting on what it is that I see, feel and that's… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think… — Robin Guthrie Copy Share Image
Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do… — George Burns Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no -… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business. — John Kao Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try… — Frank Bettger Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to… — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition,… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image