Work Quotes
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
James Schuyler
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I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.
Christopher Guest
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It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.
W. Sangster
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Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.
Eric Maskin
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I believe you should find at least two hours of every day to spend doing the things that make you happy and relieve stress. I try to wake up a little early so I have an hour to work out and try to allow at least an hour a day to hang with friends.
Jill Wagner
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I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!
Angela Alioto
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My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.
Lisa Kristine
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
Maurice Sendak
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The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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I work late nights catching up on emails, and then, in the mornings, I just hop on my laptop right away. Then, every other day, I'll hop into the shower! My husband is horrified that I don't shower every day.
Kathryn Minshew
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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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The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.
Benjamin Cohen
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Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.
Jason Mraz
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For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
Paz Vega
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It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.
Jared Sparks
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Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.
Jill Hennessy
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The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.
Maria de Medeiros
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If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.
Eli Broad
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And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.
Frank Carlucci
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When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
Diedrich Bader
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Quiet night that bringsRest to the labourer, is the outlaw's day,In which he rises early to do wrong,And when his work is ended, dares not sleep.
Philip Massinger
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My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.
Keke Palmer
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I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
Amy Poehler