When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would...

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic...

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music...

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

You have to strike a balance between imprinting the film with your voice, and trusting these amazing, talented people you've hired to do great work.

Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented...

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his...

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't...

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the...

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be...

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow -...

Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood...

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their...

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend...