Words matter. These are the best Real Work Quotes from famous people such as Steve Wozniak, Ellen Burstyn, Anthony Trollope, Liam Neeson, Tom Hodgkinson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.
The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don’t think it changes from director to director – I always go for broke! But I don’t get a lot of direction, unfortunately.
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, ‘That’s real work.’
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
I’ve always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that – she was always concerned about me academically.
The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.
Although we often discussed the idea of research on the nature of antigen recognition by T cells in the laboratory in the late Seventies while I was still in Basel, the real work did not start until the early Eighties in my new laboratory at M.I.T.
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood’s not real.
What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me ‘this isn’t the truth’. I had to get back to real work.
Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn’t done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can’t just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.
You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it’s inspiring. You learn so much that other people don’t get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
I’m not a starstuck dude. I’ve been in this game too long for that, but I do respect and acknowledge real work and real work ethic.
It’s bred in me that I only see real work as getting stuck in and getting your hands dirty.
It’s when you’ve stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you’re asleep, that the real work is done.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
