Ray J Quotes

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

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.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

I take my work seriously.

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 learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

I have a strong work ethic.

Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

Always take your job seriously, never yourself.

I have the ablest staff that ever served any President in my memory. There's not a playboy among them. They aren't sitting around drinking whiskey at 11 o'clock at night. They aren't walking around with their zippers unbuttoned.

I have a good work ethic.

It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.