I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn't work.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

It's quite true to say that if you work with marvellous fresh ingredients, the simplest dish is taken to another level.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

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