Work Quotes
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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
George Brandis
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We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the real demand is there for it. We implement the changes before the customers even realizes a need for it.
Eric Metcalf
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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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Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.
Bill Jay
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I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.
Scott Adams
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It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
Seth Godin
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker
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There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.
Brian Morton
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If I’m wrong and there is a God, I like to think that the fact I noticed some of his best work while the rest blundered about blind and deaf to it would hold me in good stead.
Nick Baker
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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
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
Evan Esar
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Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal.
Edwin Catmull
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It has been said that work is the highest form of play.
Catherine Ponder
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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You're only as good as your body of work.
Paul Scheer
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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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I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.
Nicole Kidman
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I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
Ben Miller
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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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Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.
Boyd K. Packer
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.
Kevin Costner