Work Quotes
I lived in Bandra East, on the 12th floor. There was a small earthquake; I could feel the building shaking. I was halfway down the stairs when I realised I'd forgotten my laptop, and all my scripts were on it. If I lost the laptop, I'd lose all my work. I ran back up to get it!
Rajkumar Hirani
Indian filmmaker
When entrepreneurs talk about their success, they rarely talk about luck. I think that's because most of them think the concept denigrates the hard work and smart thinking they put into their projects. But luck is a huge part of any successful business.
Marc Randolph
American entrepreneur
I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.
Frank Rijkaard
Dutch former footballer
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.
Julie Walters
Actress
I'm tired of divided government. It doesn't work very well.
Paul Ryan
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
John Grisham
American novelist, lawyer
I come to work, and I have a good time. I have no reason to change anything that I do.
Jim Pattison
Canadian business magnate
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody
American novelist
Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
Powers Boothe
American actor
I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.
Brian Shaw
American strongman
When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.
Jeff Garcia
American former professional football playe
Life is a results game. You turn up late for work four or five times, you get sacked. It's doing the right things and that's one thing I've learned about life. Everything is about results.
Michail Antonio
Soccer player
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
Antony Gormley
Sculptor
The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
American actor
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don Delillo
American novelist
Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.
Elizabeth Berg
American novelist
I'm going to have to work it, compete for that starting spot, compete for that job. I'm willing to come in and work, willing to compete and go at people in practice so I can have that ability to start in the starting lineup.
Kevin Knox
American professional basketball player
I'm always amazed when anybody remembers anything of my work, and even more so when I get nominated for something I've done. For many years, I was like a horse wearing a pair of blinkers as far as using these awards or nominations in order to boost my career was concerned.
Janet Mcteer
British politician
Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
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