Work Quotes
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Annie Dillard
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Oh, it was work and no fooling. I enjoyed it very much, because I didn’t have to do it.
Frederik Pohl
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We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy.
John Bruton
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My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.
Ben Watt
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In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
Penelope Cruz
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It is a total treat to get to work with James Cromwell.
Lee Pace
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It would be impossible to overstate the appreciation that we on the crew feel for your dedication and the quality of your work.
Neil Armstrong
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
George Eliot
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
D. T. Suzuki
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As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.
Laurent Lamothe
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Joan Didion
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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
Claus von Stauffenberg
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The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'
Ben Bernanke
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I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
Scott Haze
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Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.
Benji Durden
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I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.
Dua Lipa
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Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
Amy Purdy
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Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.
C. S. Lewis
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About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
Auguste Renoir
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
Rudyard Kipling
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I have the best job in politics in Alabama. As the attorney general, I just go to work every day and think of a way to sue the Obama Administration. If you don't think that is fun, that is a full-time job.
Luther Strange
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Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.
Kyle MacLachlan
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The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.
Branch Warren