Work Quotes
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
Evan Jones
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You're only as good as your body of work.
Paul Scheer
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Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.
Michael Jackson
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Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).
Seth Godin
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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
George Horace Lorimer
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Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.
Sidney Lumet
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I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.
Hayden Christensen
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Hard work's a good distraction.
Scott Westerfeld
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If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
John Ruskin
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I'm sure possibly all the extra work probably could be bothersome to him healthwise, and he just decided he wants to move on. Good for him. He'll have a successful career in whatever he does.
Bob Stoops
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
Laurie Anderson
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One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.
Eve Ensler
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When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
Eric Maisel
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Estelle Parsons
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Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
Bill Jay
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
Steny Hoyer
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And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.
Elizabeth Wein
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After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
Bram van Velde
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An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
Harrison Ford
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The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."
Tim Ferriss
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In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
Betty MacDonald