Work Quotes
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The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in.
Holly Hunter
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Indeed, gaiety is singularly lacking everywhere in Russia. What is intense and joyful goes into pioneer work and not into amusement. Only in the company of young communists and artists can one find stimulation.
Dorothy Thompson -
The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.
Mary Barnett Gilson -
I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
Bette Midler -
We're professionals and we have to come to work and play the game. They had to sit through the same thing except they had to sit on the bench.
Chris Pronger -
I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
John Raitt -
I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.
David Shrigley
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A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
Hermann von Helmholtz -
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.
Jeremy Irvine -
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Lukas Foss -
Our family is very, very competitive. But it's a fun and inspiring sort of competitive. It makes you proud of what you do and makes you want to work hard and do all your homework so you can win.
Joe Lonsdale -
I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'
Steve Buscemi -
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
Lisa Kudrow
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Anna Held -
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
Antoine Fuqua -
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
Nan Goldin -
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
Lynsey Addario -
I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.
Jeff Kinney -
What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
Ashwin Sanghi
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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
Maria Semple -
I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.
Nan Goldin -
If you want great tranquility. It's hard work and a long walk
Charles Wright -
Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.
Alfonso Herrera