Work Quotes
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When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
Mark Walport
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I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work than trying to figure that out. So I commission a lot of works with artists who I like personally or professionally, and through that process, I wound up collecting a lot of art.
Mark Parker
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In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
Edith Pearlman
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I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
James Frecheville
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You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
Taylor Hackford
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson
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Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.
Chris Raschka
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I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.
Hermann Hesse
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My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
Archy Ivan Marshall
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When you've been part of a show that has made so many people happy and continues to do so to this day, it's hard to resent it, ... Besides that, I'm also known as Maynard, which means I say 'WORK?!?!' for fans almost as much as I say, 'Skipper!'
Bob Denver
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We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
Matt Mullenweg
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
Oprah Winfrey
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I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.
David B. Coe
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I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year.
Daniella Monet
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I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.
Jim Drain
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Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.
Ana Castillo
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Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.
Wassily Kandinsky
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When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
Jeff Koons
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I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.
Margot Kidder
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie Chan
