Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio GaudiAs other people poach our people, we have to poach other people because we want to have an economy that works well.
Helen ClarkWhat I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah WinfreyLife grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HoraceGive yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Mary Kay AshThink as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
Tom LehrerHard work spotlights the character of people - some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam EwingThe only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell BakerI've always thought you should work to live not live to work and I've definitely been living to work so I might need to address that. [on her schedule in 2007 after apparently taking the first five months off]
Keira KnightleyAnd, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style
Isaac DisraeliIt is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Dietrich Fischer-DieskauIf you're in a band like Travis, you work with artists - whether video directors or whatever - and you let them get on with it.
Fran HealyI'm working my way toward divinity.
Bette MidlerInanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
Eli SiegelWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigAre you still hanging around? [to the ultra-pretentious Nick Robinson, BBC correspondent who speaks each word that comes out of his lips as though it is a work of sheer genius]
George W BushIn Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
Len DeightonPraise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.
Basil BuntingThe writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
Julian BarnesWhat's much more important is an investigative mind and an understanding of how the body works
Duncan FletcherThe work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure
William FaulknerThe resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor IvanovAn honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert G IngersollYes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
Charles ClarkeI could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
Suzanne FarrellOne grooming tip that really works is to put cucumber slices on your bloodshot eyes the morning after a long night of partying.
Art CooperEducation isn't play - and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
Thomas EdisonIt has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward GibbonNapoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
Graham TaylorMorale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
Benjamin MorrellFew of us get anything without working for it
William FeatherHaving George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Robin WilliamsLawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
Dorothy L SayersTreat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana TurnerI'm on the road ten days a month, that's my workout.
Bryan AdamsThis has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette DavisSome people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.
Judith GuestThe worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave (The Re-conquest of Ireland)
James ConnollyThe underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
Alexander CalderLiving is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare PaveseMy father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.
Simon SchamaI've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off.
Ian McKellanSometimes you find it very hard to work out how to achieve your aims, and then at the last minute a great idea comes into your mind that changes all that.
John FremontThere are some fantastic actors out there who I have really respected and it has been a thrill to work with, such as Richard Burton.
Gale GordonIf you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place
Orison Swett MardenAnyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis StevensonNever follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J Michael Straczynski
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