Their Work Quotes

399 Their Work quotes by 355 unique authors

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. — Francis Collins
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us.… — Catherine Hicks
I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their… — Walter Kirn
I donâ€™t ask writers about their work habits. I really donâ€™t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time… — Philip Roth
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though… — Arthur C. Clarke
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw? — Banksy
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but… — Unknown Author
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength… — Ursula K. Le Guin
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or… — J. G. Ballard
Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running… — Patricia Briggs
As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become… — Michael Gurian
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their… — Brennan Manning
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course… — Susan J. Douglas
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. — Carl Sagan
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when… — Stanley Milgram
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the… — Janet Frame
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often… — Lewis Hyde
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.… — Wendell Berry

Who Wrote These Their Work Quotes

355 authors contributed a total of 399 Their Work Quotes, led by these top contributors: