Work Quotes
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire -
Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.
Jan C. Ting
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The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.
Geoffrey Hinton -
There are many actors I really like and whose work I admire.
Asghar Farhadi -
Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.
Andrew Dominik -
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
Jerome Robbins -
For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.
Bonnie Hammer -
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
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That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.
Jon Heder -
We'd take records you'd never hear in clubs and make them into club tracks. We were doing B-sides on records that had nothing to do with the songs, and calling them Masters at Work dubs.
Little Louie Vega -
It's incumbent upon a director, if you want to pull the best performance out of an actor, you have to really work to who they are and how they work and not just expect them to hit a mark every time. You have to be very adaptable in the approach that you use with every different actor.
Anthony Russo -
Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
Ann Nocenti -
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
John Hanning Speke -
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
Tyrone Hayes
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To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
Anne Heche -
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
Ian Buruma -
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Lindsay Duncan -
I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!
Ana Ivanovic -
To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.
Tionne Watkins TLC -
Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.
Eli Pariser
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It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.
Carol Kane -
When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.
Kim Cattrall -
I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
Alton Brown -
My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.
Hank Stuever