Work & Career Quotes (14891 Quotes)

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I'd made this naive little documentary about the real Burt Munro, very early in my film-making career, and this character always stuck with me. I thought, 'God, what a great subject for a feature film' And it's a project that I've been keeping on the back burner ever since.

We have seen a news report that India is delaying action on a request by Pakistan to cross over the LoC so as to have access for relief work. It is clarified that we have received no such request from Pakistan.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

It's almost kind of the worst scenario for the union. I would think that sometime in the next couple of weeks you might see some striking mechanics crossing the picket line to go back to work.

Even at this time his career, people stop to watch him come to the plate. I know I have.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

To make progress in understanding all this, we probably need to begin with simplified (oversimplified) models and ignore the critics' tirade that the real world is more complex. The real world is always more complex, which has the advantage that we shan't run out of work.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

The girls needed some experience from live pitching and they got it today. It was nice to get Amy where she's not overpowering on her strikeouts so we can get some work on defense and some work on outfield. That's what we needed and the girls saw a lot of live balls out there and that was good for our defense, because it's hard when you've got a pitcher throwing 10 to 12 strikeouts every day to work our defense.

Whether we want to embrace the technology or not, we have to. Don't be too eager to move on, but look at what is working now. To get ahead of yourself can be disastrous to your work.

One of the more obvious options for smaller firms is the opportunity to outsource certain business processes so that in a sense you off-load a bulk of the compliance work.

The more Iraqis feel that they are in charge of their own country, the more rapidly we'll get away from this idea that we're there as an occupation force. We came as liberators. That's our mission.

Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said, America is fitted by tradition for directing and guiding revolutions. We won our freedom by revolution. ... Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral and afterwards in the material sphere.

They're trying every way they can to make it work, but they're an example of the struggles that American manufacturing is having.

While it's a bit of a surprise, the slightly downbeat news on confidence can be explained by the ongoing weakness in employment, and perhaps consumers are a little concerned about the backup in mortgage rates. But while they're becoming less confident, they're still buying -- the latest sales numbers still look good.

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

We got a lot of work to do plain and simple. This bye week didn't look to be in a good spot when it first came out, but obviously right now it's what we need because we have a great deal of work this next two weeks.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

The February timeframe is news to me. We've been performing the work well, and we stand behind the job.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

This acting was very hard work.

These figures reflect the rather mixed picture of recent months. Employment is up by nearly 200,000 on the year and I am pleased to see the claimant count falling for the first time in a year. However, the rise in ILO unemployment shows the need to continue to be vigilant.

This should be an incentive for all political leaders and the two governments to make sure this process works.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

It's distracting. I understand everybody has a job to do. I just don't know what you say. You never can be right. . . . Everybody has to look at every opportunity in life whether it's in your profession, mine or the president of the United States.

This is the first time that I can remember that I've missed eight free throws in a game in my career.

Corey came to the state tournament to play. He's playing his best basketball of his career. He's shooting well, but he's defending and rebounding well, too.

He's more mature. He's taken this leadership role really seriously. He's carrying himself like he's a leader. He comes in with the play he's confident that it's going to work. It also trickles down on us.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or 'real' probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory 'If this is what you want, try it it is not my business to justify application of the system that can only be done by philosophizing I am a mathematician'. In practice he is apt to say 'try this if it works that will justify it'. But now he is not merely philosophizing he is committing the characteristic fallacy. Inductive experience that the system works is not evidence.

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something betterthe price of progressadds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.

I think the reason graduated licensing works is because you're not changing behavior, but changing conditions under which they (teens) can drive.

Some guys don't accept their role. He took his role and takes off, knowing the better he plays and the harder he works the more time he'll get. That's how it works.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

It's good to be back with team and get my work. I feel great ... but I'm still working as a starter, doing my normal five days routine to get my arm in shape.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain and since labor is pain in itself it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

(Salary) certainly is one point of dissatisfaction with teachers and although money is not why someone enters the profession, it is an issue. Teachers need to be able to pay their bills and support their families.

We now have the obligation to mobilize all our energies, all our hearts, all our skill to make this political change, for which we were elected, work.

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

The Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman recently published two pictures, one of a dilapidated house and the other of a washed-away field. The magazine offered a prize for the best essay on the two pictures. The first prize was won by a Cherokee Indian, who wrote this Both pictures show that white man crazy. Make big teepee, plow hill, water wash down, windblown soil, grass all gone. Squaw gone, papoose too. No chuckaway. No pigs, no corn, no hay, no cow, no pony. Indian no plow land, keep grass, buffalo eat. Indian eat buffalo. Hide make teepee, moccasins too. Indian no make terrace, no build dam, no give a dam. All time eat, no hunt job, no hitch-hike, no ask relief, no shoot pig, Great spirit make grass, Indian no waste anything. Indian no work. White man heap crazy.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich