Work Quotes
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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
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Work, finish, publish.
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Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
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I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
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Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
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You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.
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I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.
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Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
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One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
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Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
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A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.
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I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.
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I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.
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I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
