Work Quotes

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I still work out on a daily basis.

The average person puts only 25 of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50 of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.