You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.
Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.
I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.
I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.
Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.
No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.
under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.
The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.
Work ethics eliminates fear.
At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.
You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things. . . I just go, That's just fabulous.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.