Work Quality Quotes

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

Every man must admit that by means of instruments and machines the labourer can execute tasks he could not possibly perform without them; that he can perform a greater quantity of work in a given time, and that he can perform the work with greater nicety and accuracy than he could possibly do had he no instruments and machines.

I just hope that my fans continue to like my work.

The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.

I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension.

Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.