Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.

I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

I work really hard on my craft.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.