Alan Redpath Quotes

We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Good
  • Work
  • Kid

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • American
  • Day

• An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Sentence

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • Me
  • Environment

• I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Want
  • Travel

• I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Economics

• My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Political
  • Support

• When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Work
  • Done
  • Art

• As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Work
  • Inspired

• I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • Live
  • Country

• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Point Of View

• A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Learning

• The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

  

  George Osborne
  • Strong
  • Alone
  • Rest

• We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Work
  • Needs
  • Prayed