work quotes

“I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work. ”

— Jim Carrey

“If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. ”

— Jim Carrey

“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. ”

— Jim Carrey

“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. ”

— Jim Carrey

“There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.”

— Hillary Clinton

“If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face. ”

— Johnny Depp

“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading. ”

— Johnny Depp

“You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“I keep working because I learn something new all the time. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“ I still work out on a daily basis. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

— Helen Keller

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. ”

— Helen Keller

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

— Maya Angelou

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou