I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. Lucille Ball
The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend. Hillary Clinton
I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now. Hillary Clinton
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. Ray Bradbury
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling. Eric Davis
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. Helen Hayes
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. James A. Baldwin
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. Florence Scovel Shinn
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! Og Mandino
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. Donald Trump
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. Ellen DeGeneres
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. James Cash Penney
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. Andy Warhol
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. James A. Baldwin
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Arthur Schopenhauer