Work Quotes

• My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

  

  Topher Grace
  • Money
  • Career
  • Company

• You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work
  • Home
  • Job

• In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Important
  • Way
  • USA

• There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are logical, and they work really well.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Work
  • Hand

• The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Work
  • Leader
  • Floor

• If there's anything consistent about my work, it's not flat.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Work
  • Anything
  • Consistent

• Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.

  

  John Kluge
  • Work

• I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Work
  • Home

• You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Work

• I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Life
  • Important
  • American

• I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Work
  • Crazy

• Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Job

• I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Work
  • Value

• What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse.' It isn't.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Work
  • True

• It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

  

  Jay-Z
  • God
  • Hard
  • Damn

• I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Nice

• I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Work
  • Taken

• You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • World
  • Home
  • Past

• I don't believe it's productive to go around and badmouth anyone that I work with, because at the end of the day, we all have to sit in front of each other and agree or disagree.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Work
  • Believe

• We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • Literature

• As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Art
  • Actor
  • Television

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