Work Quotes

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

~ Henry Drummond

I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.

~ Carl Weathers

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

~ Kofi Annan

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

~ Doris Lessing

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

~ Mike Mills

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

~ Richard Avedon

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

~ Jeffery Deaver

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

~ Augusten Burroughs

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

~ Twyla Tharp

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

~ Dan Gilroy

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

~ Erma Bombeck

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

~ Yves Tanguy

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

~ Moby

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

~ Maurice Sendak

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.

~ John C. Calhoun

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

~ Viswanathan Anand

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

~ Steve Lacy

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

~ Neil Strauss

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

~ Elliott Erwitt

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

~ Shannen Doherty

I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

~ Padmasree Warrior

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 D'israeli

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

~ James Whistler

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

~ Sarah Parcak

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

~ Jeff Goodell

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

~ Henry Paulson

I want to work on environmental issues.

~ Jimmy Gomez

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

~ Jared Diamond

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

~ Chen Guangbiao

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

~ Fred Upton

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

~ Natalie Jeremijenko

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

~ John Garamendi

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

~ Gale Anne Hurd

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

~ Louis Bacon

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

~ Jim Jeffords

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

~ Dean Kamen

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

~ Martin Parr

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

~ Erykah Badu

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

~ George Soros

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

~ Pope Francis