Work Quotes
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Typically your work will end up in a museum after you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.
Eric Drooker
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Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
Caroline Kennedy
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Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
James Surowiecki
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Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.
Fred Wilson
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Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.
David Autor
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Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.
Jay Chiat
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If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
Donald Miller
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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
Clive Thompson
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I know I must live in France, but I don't want to cut myself off from America. France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that's why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it's like shouting in a forest. There's no echo.
Marc Chagall
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
Don McLean
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When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.
Elijah Wood
