How was I supposed to do my work while someone is looking at such stuff next to me?

You’re only as good as your next idea. And if you can’t agree on that, then it’s time to walk.

I don’t ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

I see myself as traditional even though I know you see my work as experimental. I don’t really consider Sterne, Joyce, and Proust experimental either because the tradition of their writing goes back a long...

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

You always want to be the guy. You work hard and as a backup. That’s a great thing being able to help the team win.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

The distinction between “assistant” and intern” is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.But of course interns are paid, in experience.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

His work had a kind of velocity in the way things were made,

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don’t like to put up with that level of insane unless there’s some kind of high-calorie compensation.

Bleep. I don’t want it to work.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have willingly paid.

I kept looking for a combination that would work. I was looking for five players who would score and stay in front of ball on defense. I couldn’t find it.

The best thing I think about me and Dave as a creative team is, we don’t have to work together. We both have individual careers,

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual...

It’s difficult enough in this league to get the lead, but you have to do the necessary work to protect it.

We’re going to have to work our way through that, … It’s going to be a big topic of discussion. We’ve got Chris here with a short work week, so we’ve got to do a...

Gotta have gas. Can’t work without it. Can’t live without it.

The president cites Judge Roberts’ work in this post as one of the reasons he made this nomination, and the committee will want to square these varying accounts to get as close to the truth...

It was a good tune-up to keep guys fresh and work some of the kinks out.

It doesn’t work if the bad guys kill his mother’s uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s pet dog. You’ve got to make the stakes high.

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as ‘secular or sacred.’ In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of...

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,–use it faithfully.

I was struck again by the need to collaborate and to work together strategically among churches in a city. One of the speakers really challenged me when he asked what other organization would have 1,200...

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

I wish we had never gotten to the point we are now. We ought to make this work. We have got to confront the opponents before us.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

He draws a salary and does not work.

He’s been working hard. He was out there doing early work this morning with me. He’s committed to it. And we’ll see where it goes.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.

It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as they stand...

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can’t get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated...

The truth can do years of work in seconds.

I don’t care who I have to get to, to make this agenda work. They must know that I am in no one’s pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone.

The cruel realities of supply and demand are at work here. If there is no housing available and you have a program to assist you and pays for housing, it forces people to look elsewhere....

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

This program is meant to keep the joints moving and gain some mobility that is lost through arthritis, … We work from head to toe.

I stayed with him for three days, and he then asked: ‘Do you know any craft by which to make your living?’ I told him: ‘I am a lawyer, a scientist, a scribe, a mathematician...

We have to work on it more because we’re not usually going to get that many chances. We weren’t good enough tonight.

The harder the fight, the greater the victory.