I used to write songs that were deeply personal, but since I am becoming so passionate about the world around me, that passion and drive is starting to come into my work.
— Sophie B. Hawkins
Juggling your personal life, your social life, and your work is hard, especially when you're in school like I am, but I think it's worth it.
— Sophia Lillis
It's a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.
— Sophia Amoruso
It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.
I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.
— Sonya Hartnett
I think the ability and the knowledge to be able to defend yourself builds confidence. Also there's great gratification in the sweat and work you get from any combat training.
— Sonya Deville
In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it's still luck of the draw.
— Sonoya Mizuno
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.
— Sonny Rollins
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
— Sonny Perdue
You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.
— Sonny Mehta
I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.
— Sonny Bill Williams
When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male chaperone. The greatest moment was when that ended.
— Sonita Alizadeh
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.
— Sonia Sotomayor
It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.
— Sonia Rykiel
People should see my work and think beyond what I am on daily basis, on Twitter, Instagram, or the perception they have of me in their heads.
— Soni Razdan
I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.
I was a coat checker, a dishwasher, a waitress, and those were some of the happiest times of my life because I still got to do my writing. You're lucky when you can work and then do your art.
To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
— Sophia Bush
You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.
A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.
There's no point of equilibrium. I'm either at home or at work, but what I try to do is to give my whole heart to wherever I am.
— Sonya Walger
I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.
I feel like the story me and Ronda can tell one day will be so awesome, and I think we have something special here. I think that it's going to be an honor and a privilege to work in the ring with her. That's the biggest compliment, is that Ronda Rousey - she's done a lot in her life. She's accomplished a lot.
The thing about being a dancer-turned-actor is that you know what hard work is.
In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.
If the response to 'Suite Francaise' is any indication, there's a great deal of curiosity about Nemirovsky, and the best way to deal with it is to produce another book. So much of her work has been unavailable, and we want to bring as much of it back into print as possible.
As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.
To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, and I know a lot of hard work is going to go into it, so hopefully it pays off.
I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
It was a miracle that I became an actress. I survived because of hard work and perseverance.
I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.
I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.
— Sophia Loren
Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.
I work in silence.
I've never seen someone work for a salary.
You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.
You can be happy with work, you can be happy in other facets of life, but if you're not happy in your personal life, and you're not loving open and honestly, it sucks.
If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.
— Sonu Nigam
I always want to do work that feels honest and that's harder to find than you imagine.
Ethanol is here to stay, and we're going to work for new technologies to be more efficient.
A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.
A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
— Sonja Sohn
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.
I wanted to work in the Hindi film industry much more than what I was offered. But if you are a grain of rice in a wheat field, it is not your fault... You are just different.
Acting is a fair business. If you are not going to bring in the audience, no nepotism will work.
