Work Quotes
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My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.
Kathryn Minshew
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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.
Eric Schmidt
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Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths.
Antoine Griezmann
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We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
Jillian Michaels
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I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
Barack Obama
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I do like to buy my own clothes because I like to support designers. I know the work that goes into it.
Katie Holmes
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I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
Chris Matthews
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I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.
Joel Murray
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The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career, and I am deeply indebted to you... You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally, and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded.
Jennifer Holliday
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret
Betty Smith
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My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
Bob Schieffer
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
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Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
Ian Hacking
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You work really hard on something, and if you're lucky, you get a break.
Gene Green
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Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.
Conan O'Brien
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I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.
Oprah Winfrey
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
Debi Gliori
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Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
Ashwin Sanghi
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.
Desmond Dekker
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I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.
Rachel Caine
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I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.
Jenn Proske