Lydia Davis Quotes

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Work
  • Real
  • Me

• 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
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Love
  • Know

• 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
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• 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
  • Work
  • Think
  • Grandfather

• I need to work to feel well.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Need

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• 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
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• 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
  • Good
  • Children
  • Pretty

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Yourself

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• 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
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Day
  • Week

• Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Mother

• I feel like alternative piercings in the ear is this untapped way to festoon yourself. Not many people understand this, but it hurts so good. It's like getting dental work done. It hurts in the right way.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I began … to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper.

  

  George Eliot
  • Bad
  • Pain
  • Lyric

• Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

  

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • God
  • Devil
  • Understood

• I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

  

  Lydia Davis
  • Work
  • Small