Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.
Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.
I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself?
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.
I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think t...
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All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate learning with work and to associate work with drudgery so that the remainder of their lives they will possibly never go ...
I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.'...
