Work & Career Quotes (14891 Quotes)

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The thing that really upset me is that Sheehan outworked us, especially on the boards. There are more aspects to basketball than scoring. Especially in the state tournament, the things that allow you to advance are playing tough defense and owning the backboards. I didn't see enough white shirts (Fitch) boxing Sheehan out. All the glory goes to the offense, but we have to make a commitment to rebounding and defense. It's hard work. That's why we lost by five instead of winning by 10.

Everyone is kind of on track to determine where these elevated readings are coming from even though no work is going on. We will have follow-up tests for that control room on Monday because they'll do a wipe up and clean down in that area as well.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced ... the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously ... this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work....

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

We have methods in this country to control rabies as far as a human disease is concerned, and we do not need this vaccine and it does not work.

This was one game, ... We should just forget about it tonight, watch the video tomorrow, work hard and fix the problems and find our game.

The books usually introduce the Man with the Yellow Hat at the beginning. He says, 'Goodbye, George, I'm going to work.' He leaves, George gets into all his adventures, and the Man is absent until the end. My approach was to make it more of a buddy comedy.

Shortly before she died, Alex spoke to us about butterflies, and we released them at her funeral as a beautiful tribute to her life. Since then, the butterfly has come to symbolize Alex, her life and her work. The Alexandra Scott Butterfly Award will serve as an enduring tribute to her memory, and we congratulate Grace as this year's winner.

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

The recent trend in California's employment statistics has been a move from mediocre to downright ugly. After a brief spurt in July and August, employment growth has slowed to a crawl.

But I feel better than I usually feel at this time of spring. I'm just battling, trying to get some work in.

I was very fortunate. I never reached a crossroads in my career. When I became manager, that ended my playing career it wasn't a decision I had to make.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

As he gets older and wiser, he's going to realize what works for him. The thing is, most of what he does works. He's that nasty. I don't think a lot of people realize how good he can be.

We got a chance to get those guys out there and get them some work in and that was big for us in a game like this. They came in and pitched well against a good ball club.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

I'm just ready to get to work, ready to get back to where I feel like I should be, and that's in the big leagues helping this team win. I'm very capable of doing that.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

It was so strange that my mother got very sick when I got the film. So I had the dual experience happening, the personal one and the work one.

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

We still have the problem of the occupation of Iraq, which can be very uncertain and very dangerous. We still have North Korea, the potential for terrorism elsewhere and at home and SARS.

That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

To have nearly half of employment in manufacturing at a time when we're losing manufacturing in Michigan and in the United States, is certainly something we need to concentrate on.

These populist authoritarian policies are good for rhetoric, but they have to broaden the system of government to make them work.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

We're not really trying to call this a job fair so much as a hiring fair. Employers are here not to get back with you later, but to hire you today, ... These are people who really, really need to work. They're the bread and butter of America and we're very happy to be there for them.

He's already lost his job, lost his career, and his dream.... his dream since he was 9 years old. It's over. He will never do that again.

The best insurance policy for tomorrow is to make the most productive use of today. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

What were doing is cutting through the red tape. We are not FEMA, we are not Homeland Security, were dealing directly with the people that have needs and were getting them the materials. No B.S. No maybe, well its in the works. Were taking it down there.

I do dread that (the injuries). Truth of the matter being, if the Air Force had been the end of Bryce's career I think I would have been a happy man because I wouldn't have to worry about him getting hurt. But since that's his profession, he chose it, I'm glad for him.

Rising unemployment, ironically, contains good news. It signals people who had given up and dropped out of the work force are back looking for jobs. Clearly, they have hope there are jobs to be found.

It tells us that the administration respects us as professionals and that they respect our work.

It's interesting that by taking these people, they're doing the opposite of what they set out to do. They're bringing attention to how noble and necessary their work is in Iraq.

He will always be a work in progress. He's a great student of the game. It may take him a little while to get something, but he only makes a mistake once.

I have no clue how the BCS works. If we take care of our business, we'll leave the BCS to everybody else.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

We are committed to opening Yucca Mountain based only on sound science. The work that we do must be without question or qualification, and this report confirms that we are on the right path forward.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.