My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!
— Su-chin Pak
I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
— Sturgill Simpson
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
— Studs Terkel
I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?
— Stuart Rose
I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.
— Stuart Pearce
I had to go back and work on my bowling when I first came in. I was out of the team for three-four months before I came back into the ODI team again. I had to work on my bowling, which I did and the results are coming.
— Stuart Binny
I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn't work.
— Stormy Daniels
I hope I get to work with Ms. Meryl Streep. She's so brilliant, great, and gracious an actress and person. I would love to work with her.
— Storm Reid
A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.
— Stone Cold Steve Austin
I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
— Stockwell Day
I had to work hard to keep up with my mom. That's where I learned it from. She's a freak.
— Stipe Miocic
My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
— Sting
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Things that I do tend not to work out commercially.
— Stewart Lee
If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent.
— Stewart Butterfield
Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn't work when you're a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.
Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
— Stuart Woods
I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge.
Our training schedule can change quite a bit throughout the year - if you're going into quite a heavy Test match workload a lot of it's based on recovery and a lot of aerobic work is done in that period.
— Stuart Broad
We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn't know what he's talking about in all of his tracks, but I'm a fan. It's rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I'm convinced that my music can work in the U.S.
— Stromae
I think kid actors may grow up faster, with the responsibility of having to do school work, learn all lines.
My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.
— Stone Gossard
When I came to WWE back in the day, I'd been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.
I'm honest and tell it like it is. I've been around the horn a few times and learned valuable lessons from screwing up a bit. So, if I can pass off advice or make someone smile on the way to work, I'm for it.
I lived with my mom my whole life; her work ethic was ridiculous, and it hasn't changed.
I just work hard at everything I do. If there's something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
I couldn't buy my way - I had to work my way. What a great quote: 'I couldn't buy my way into success, I had to work my way into success.'
— Stewart Rahr
I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some level it's reassuring to know they can paint figuratively. Likewise, when you listen to the '50s jazz people who do these vast solos, you buy into it more if they open by playing a tune.
The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.
I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.
I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for.
It's a huge privilege to be named England Twenty20 captain and form part of a leadership team that I've no doubt will work well together with a great deal of synergy.
I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.
To work with Miss Oprah has been amazing. To have her in my corner and inspire me and uplift me has been amazing.
I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.
When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
— Stokely Carmichael
During a night shift, I'll work out twice during the day. If I have to work during the day, I usually have guys at the station who will work out with me. Then at night, I'll go train.
I just want to work hard and have good fights.
It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.
I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.
