Work Quotes (5258)

Quotes and citations about work

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics... view

By: Jim Woodring

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it... view

By: Victoria Woodhull

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire... view

By: George Edward Woodberry

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?.. view

By: Victoria Wood

Todd and I have a very complementary working style ... view

By: Sam Wood

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences... view

By: Roy Wood

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult... view

By: Natalie Wood

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well... view

By: Natalie Wood

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store... view

By: Natalie Wood

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me... view

By: Natalie Wood

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work... view

By: Ed Wood

I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work... view

By: Douglas Wood

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded... view

By: Douglas Wood

That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner... view

By: Douglas Wood

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter... view

By: Beatrice Wood

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard... view

By: Beatrice Wood

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with... view

By: Stevie Wonder

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon... view

By: Lee Ann Womack

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would... view

By: Lee Ann Womack

Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted... view

By: Stephen Wolfram

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general... view

By: Stephen Wolfram

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion... view

By: Tobias Wolff

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into... view

By: Tobias Wolff

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community... view

By: Tobias Wolff

You don't teach information in a writing workshop... view

By: Tobias Wolff

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores... view

By: Thomas Wolfe

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard... view

By: Scott Wolf

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it... view

By: Scott Wolf

There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!.. view

By: Scott Wolf

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work... view

By: Scott Wolf

Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up... view

By: Scott Wolf

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being... view

By: Markus Wolf

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced... view

By: Markus Wolf

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric... view

By: Dick Wolf

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people... view

By: Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows... view

By: Dick Wolf

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house... view

By: Dick Wolf

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks... view

By: Dick Wolf

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work... view

By: Dick Wolf

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes... view

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein