Work Quotes
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When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.
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Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
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The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
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Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.
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You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.
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Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.
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One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.
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I need to motivate myself to work hard because only I can skate my program.
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A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
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I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.
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I have so many indulgences - way too many. But I think also you work out to be able to eat what you want. You can be healthy, but you have to let yourself live.
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Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.
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Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.
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Stay big in your work and small in your life.
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I haven't really looked either way. At the minute, I'm just enjoying each training and each game now that we're playing and I'll just sit down with the powers that be at the Swans and work out which way we want to go.
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It demonstrates that these kinds of things can, and do, work.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into the ROI Community. In the first few years, we got to see the power of these gatherings and the resulting connections that spanned the globe. It inspired us to think about how we could transform an annual gathering into a year-round community.
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It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
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The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.
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When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.
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I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
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My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.
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If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that's global, come work in the aerospace sector.
