commitment to work Quotes

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.

I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I haven't stopped working since I was 10.

I work hard because I love my work.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.