Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.
Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward.
Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important
The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.
Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.
I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.