My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.