Work Quotes
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The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
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With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
