#work

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#focused #i #illusions #look #mind

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#blessings #due #efforts #life #love

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#flourish #human #into #locked #moment

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#became #began #bubble #commented #contained

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ↗

— Herman Melville

#leisure #talk #work

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#believe #break #capable #constantly #different

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#dad #day #doctor #her #hours

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#best #blessed #cool #exhausting #guys

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#did #doing #episodes #first #had

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. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#act #acting #addiction #attention #being