Work Quotes
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Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.
Brian Tracy
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I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.
David Rubenstein
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I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.
Emily VanCamp
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.
Elizabeth Moon
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I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
Jared Harris
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck
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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
Jamie Bell
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My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.
Nancy Burson
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
John Milton
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You know how hard it's been to write material? Because to do stand-up comedy, it takes time for the material to develop. So you'll come up with a joke, you'll tweak it, you'll work it for six months, you really fine tune it, and now you've got a good bit. Well, with Trump, every day there's something new coming out.
Maz Jobrani
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I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me.
Allison Tolman
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The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.
Clayton Christensen
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To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
Margarita Simonyan
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With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.
Joe Scarborough
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People who have grit – they hate doing hard work. They hate it as much as we do. But, the thing is, they find a way to do it.
Caroline Adams Miller
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It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.
Kelly Reilly
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I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
Amanda Righetti
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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
Colm Meaney
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
Ben Vereen
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Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.
Yehuda Berg
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I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes.
David Thewlis
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy