Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
George Lucas

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
Jackson Browne

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
Harper Lee

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
Daniel Day-Lewis

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon Parks

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
Sally Ride

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
Sally Ride

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
Sally Ride

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
Don Shula

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Sean Penn

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.
Cindy Crawford

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.
Cindy Crawford

Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
Patrice Leconte

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
Edward Hopper