Work Quotes

Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

I admire work ethic. I think that it should be reinforced throughout our neighborhoods. Everybody should work hard. Practice makes perfect. You have to be diligent about what you want. You have to apply yourself. You have to motivate yourself. You have to do it for self by yourself. And then, you can do things for other people. But that's what I had to do. I had to do for self.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

We Jah people can make it work.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Sometimes, you promise someone forever, but it doesn't work that way.

My way probably won't work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.