Ian Bogost Quotes

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

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• I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Team

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Decision

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Explore

• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Art
  • She

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Mistakes

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Work
  • Model
  • Anymore

• The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Work
  • Best
  • Advice

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • White

• I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Work
  • Vision
  • Able

• No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Perfect

• Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

  

  David Korten
  • Democracy
  • Enemy

• A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Live

• The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

  

  Daniel J. Bernstein
  • Work
  • Important
  • Help

• Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Work