Work Quotes
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When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.
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Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
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You can't trust girls. When I get a girlfriend I am not going to tell her where I live or work.
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I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
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Yet the whole structure of the common law is an obvious denial of this theory; it stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work.
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In peace time, that is to say, the size of the cake depends on the amount of work done. But in war time the size of the cake is fixed. If we work harder, we can fight better. But we must not consume more.
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It is such a tricky transition between education and work.
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It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.
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I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
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When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.
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I object very much when my work is said to not be political, because my feelings about the social system are in there somewhere. The idea is to have it all in there together-you can’t pull it out.
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If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
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It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.
