Work Quotes
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
More Work Quotes
“Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
-- Roger Staubach
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
-- Charles Darwin
“Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”
-- Paul McCartney
“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.”
-- Orson Welles
“Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.”
-- Vidal Sassoon