Paul Desmond Quotes

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

I was always first in, last out, but not inefficiently.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.

There's no sauce for play like work.

Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.