I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!
I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.
But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.
I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.
It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the sou...
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’ (David Copperfield) “But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible ho...
Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes...
