Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

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

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Actor’s life is very long.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

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

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

If you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.