Work Quotes
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I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.
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I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.
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I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'
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I never compromise with my work.
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Work hard, be brave.
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The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.
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Can I assume that making people work and making money are the same thing?
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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.
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I believe that if I do good work, something in the universe will fall right for it.
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Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
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I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
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May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.
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Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
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Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.
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I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.
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I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.
