Work Quotes
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
Dean Koontz
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I'm passionate about the game. Anytime you work as hard and a play doesn't go the way you wanted, you get frustrated.
Antonio Brown
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I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
Win Butler
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Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.
David Naughton
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Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.
Marlon Brando
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We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.
Lois Frankel
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.
Bennett Miller
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The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
Og Mandino
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I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.
Elizabeth Strout
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It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
Ken Hensley
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I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
Joel Courtney
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Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
H. L. Mencken
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It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'
Jim Woodring
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The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
Paul Rand
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I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.
Cheech Marin
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I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not the only part of the story.
Patrisse Cullors
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Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.
Jozef De Veuster
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Connecting small and medium-sized businesses to international markets can create work for host country nationals alongside refugees, building economic growth and resilience in host communities.
Arancha Gonzalez
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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
Brian Skerry
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You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
David Henry Hwang
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We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create.
David Droga
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson