Work quotes

“I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.” Bertrand Russell

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” Bertrand Russell

“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” Bertrand Russell

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.” Bill Cosby

“Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.” Bill Cosby

“Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.” Bill Cosby

“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.” Ingrid Bergman

“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.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” Francis Bacon

“The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.” David Bowie

“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.” David Bowie

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.” David Bowie

“But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.” David Bowie

“But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.” David Bowie

“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.” David Bowie

“I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.” David Bowie

“Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.” David Bowie

“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.” David Bowie

“Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.” David Bowie

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” John Rockefeller

“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.” John Rockefeller

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” John Rockefeller

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.” Jon Stewart

“Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?” Jon Stewart

“I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.” Jon Stewart

“You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.” Steven Spielberg