Lydia Davis Quotes
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.Lydia Davis
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
Walter Annenberg -
I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
Taylor Swift -
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
Tamara Ecclestone -
My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
Larry Page -
I need to work to feel well.
Edouard Manet
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
Ma Long -
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Caitlyn Jenner -
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
Ursula Burns -
Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill -
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
Jackie Cooper -
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel -
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Patrick Lencioni -
I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
Patricia Highsmith -
I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
Taylor Sheridan -
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans -
I've never seen hard work fail.
Zach LaVine
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When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.
Derek Cianfrance -
Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
Cate Blanchett -
De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.
Maajid Nawaz -
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
Cory Gardner -
I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'
Peter Greenaway -
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.
Lydia Davis