Work Quotes
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I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.
Eric Bana -
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
Johannes Rau
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Shortly after I finished chemo, but during my 12 weeks of radiation, Lennon and I returned to work on the third season of the show we write, produce and star in, 'Playing House.'
Jessica St. Clair -
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
John Mackey -
If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.
T. Allen Lawson -
I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
Kevin Macdonald -
To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's being a person that can work with others and not give up. And, for me, that was part of it too.
Michael J. Massimino -
We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.
Madeleine Albright
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Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.
Jen Lancaster -
I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.
Andrew Solomon -
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
Ben Carson -
I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.
Alain Ducasse -
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
Clint Smith -
With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There's no chance it won't happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can't quite tap into what you need.
Chris Evans
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No matter how hard we work, there is always a gap with Western brands.
Li Shufu -
Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill -
As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
David Slade -
The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.'
Lindsey Buckingham -
I try to use pain as fuel for my work.
Joan Osborne
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We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.
Elizabeth Aston -
I've shot all over the world with crews from all over the world. The work ethic is the same. Bollywood is my career; it's what I do.
Priyanka Chopra -
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
Christopher McQuarrie -
I love to eat and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed with it, I don't have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week.
Amber Rose