Work Quotes
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For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
Tim Ferriss
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I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.
Melanie Laurent
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When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.
Kelly Ayotte
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To date, yeah, we probably are. We've done a lot work on zones in the last week and a half, anticipating that everybody is going to play zone, but the team that we feared most was Marquette. I like zone a lot as a coach, but my team doesn't seem to like zones.
C. Vivian Stringer
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When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.
Elle Schneider
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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.
Carol Kane
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If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
T.I.
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I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
David Shields
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You work, you get paid, you drink.
Bill Murray
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Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.
Jojo Moyes
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I like to try new things. I like to go new places and I like to work with new people. That’s sort of the definition of my job. As an actor, you just go where the work is, right.
Martha Plimpton
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Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.
Kevin Nealon
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
Penn Jillette
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What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
Jane Campion
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I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin
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Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
Brian Tracy
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
Neel Mukherjee
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I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.
Colm Toibin
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Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.
Zachary Cole Smith
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus