Work Quotes
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I've been a huge fan of Quvenzhane Wallis since 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' To me, she's our Shirley Temple, a phenomenal talent, and I wanted to work with her as soon as I saw that movie.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.
Gabriella Wilde
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Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am."
Kate Beaton -
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
Stephanie Coontz -
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland -
Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, the only thing I think of is the LP artwork. When we worked on the 'Electric Trim' artwork, we spent weeks and weeks making the LP artwork great, and then the CD artwork came together in a day or two. The LP is what's important to me.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
C. S. Lewis -
A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
George du Maurier
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I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
John Zorn -
I love my work, and I always get a jolt of adrenaline anytime I'm on set.
Virginia Williams -
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
James Cash Penney -
We face a severe shortage of dentists, for example. It would work for veterinarians, too.
B. R. Hayden -
If you truly dislike something, you are going to work harder than you ever did before. You will strive with all your breath and strength to find a way out.
Jen Selinsky -
Nothing replaces hard work.
Elise Stefanik
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When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.
Mariella Frostrup -
I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
Lynsey Addario -
If there's anything consistent about my work, it's not flat.
Rachel Morrison -
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
Pablo Picasso -
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
Abi Morgan -
I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.
Stephen Morris New Order
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For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.
Kellin Quinn -
After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
Jim Crace -
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
Byron Katie -
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
Lewis B. Smedes