Work Quotes
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.
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I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
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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.
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Work is the best thing to make us love life.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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People will do terrific things in it, and it’s maybe better for color now. But I’m not interested in the way this work looks. So much is changed—veracity is lost. The quality of witness is compromised.
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I think it shows when you have to work too hard on a song.
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You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
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The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.
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I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.
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The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
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If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."
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If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!
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It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining time? ...Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?
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I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
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You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
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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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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.
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Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done.
