Work Quotes
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After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
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I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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You have to work hard at things.
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Themes around education and learning run through my work.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
