Work Quotes (5258)

Quotes and citations about work

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle... view

By: Edward Witten

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony... view

By: Edward Witten

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant... view

By: Katarina Witt

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning... view

By: Reese Witherspoon

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out... view

By: Reese Witherspoon

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it... view

By: Reese Witherspoon

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works... view

By: Frederick Wiseman

Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script... view

By: Robert Wise

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial... view

By: Robert Wise

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get... view

By: Norman Wisdom

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity... view

By: Niklaus Wirth

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed... view

By: Niklaus Wirth

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct... view

By: Jeanette Winterson

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day... view

By: Jeanette Winterson

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium... view

By: Jeanette Winterson

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie... view

By: Jeanette Winterson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world... view

By: Jeanette Winterson

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

By: Jeanette Winterson

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues... view

By: Johnny Winter

Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy... view

By: Johnny Winter

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work... view

By: Kathleen Winsor

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode... view

By: Kate Winslet

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases... view

By: Henry Winkler

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote... view

By: Henry Winkler

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that... view

By: Kip Winger

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it... view

By: Kip Winger

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'... view

By: Debra Winger

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come... view

By: Oprah Winfrey

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works... view

By: Dave Winer

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work... view

By: Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work... view

By: Marie Windsor

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore... view

By: Terri Windling

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them... view

By: Terri Windling

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way... view

By: Terri Windling

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!.. view

By: Terri Windling

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses... view

By: Woodrow Wilson

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed... view

By: Woodrow Wilson

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work... view

By: William J. Wilson

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse... view

By: Thomas Wilson

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable... view

By: Samuel Wilson