Work Quotes
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I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
John Carmack
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I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive.
Donald Judd
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I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
Sam Ervin
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Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.
Deborah Mailman
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Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.
Jim Goldberg
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My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
Randy Pausch
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Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.
Henry Paulson
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I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.
Ree Drummond
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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
Anne Sweeney
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
Ariel Pink
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I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
Marion Cotillard
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
Maurice Greene
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
Jackson Pollock
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The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
Brian Greene
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
Carolina Herrera
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The only consistency in the work I do is that I try to use cinematography to best tell the narrative and do justice to the character arcs, but not to do it in such an overt way that people are distracted by it.
Rachel Morrison
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Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
Sam Shepard
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
Raekwon
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
Rachel McAdams
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There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.
Joe Bastianich
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I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
David Autor