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
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