Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes

Work is my top priority.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

The most important thing is work.

I am always on the job.

When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

I finish what I have to do in the office.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

I always ask candidates two things: 'How many times have you been fired?' and, 'Do you watch your clock when it's time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?'

No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.

My job is to get things done.

If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.

DoMode' is get out here and do your job and do work.

I just like doing my job.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.

Forget yourself and go to work.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.