Significant Work Quotes

I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.

I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

That's the kind of work I like to do: challenging work that has a message.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital.

As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.

I feel like when you make an album, it really has to hold its ground. It has to make a stamp.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is not careful, then it is a very significant moment and a significant work.

Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire.

I want to work on impactful projects.

We work on things that really matter.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.

It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again.

Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

The most important thing for me is to continue to impact people through my work.