Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Foucault

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

Michael J. Fox

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Mark Prior

I feel like the harder the work, the better off I'll be later in the season. If I don't work out, it's not so much my letting me down as it is letting everybody else down.

Mark Ruffalo

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

Marie Windsor

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

Marie Corelli

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

Mariel Hemingway

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The insignificant labor; the great create.

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.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Terry Pratchett

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Marcus Giles

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Kin Hubbard

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Kin Hubbard

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Melissa McCarthy

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

It has worked out well in the past, and I don't see why it will be any different with Travis.

Martha Raddatz

I have worked with Doug Vogt so many times.

Patti Smith

I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

Rufus Sewell

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

Iyanla Vanzant

I'm old. I don't want to work this hard.

I'm just going to have to work my butt off. I really want to play.

William Shatner

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

Jason Biggs

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

If Jared comes back and is normal, then great. If it's a different road, then OK, we'll work with that.