Quotes on Work

It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

The work of black creatives seems to always get undermined in one way or another, and that's what this new generation is actively changing by speaking up. We aren't accepting group categorization and group classifications to describe our work anymore - it just leads to group dismissal.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.