#work

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can't let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#control #discipline #everything #fall #focus

There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it? ↗

— Janet Jackson

#decision #down #feel #fit #get

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#black #build #hard #i #jewish

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that. ↗

— LL Cool J

#coal #different #doing #energy #enjoy

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull. ↗

— LL Cool J

#being #boring #boy #dull #focused

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#attitude #australia #being #country #else

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#already #business #businesses #contract #drama

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#bad #bad back #couple #doing #had

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#american way #continue #english #english school #i