Work Quotes
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Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
Umberto Eco -
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.
Jan Koum -
If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
Peter Falk -
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
Sargent Shriver -
I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price... I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.
Kristen Stewart -
My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.
Nina Hoss -
Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.
Alessandra Ambrosio
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One of the most important things I tell my children is that hard work can pay off. You can’t quit. You can’t complain. You never claim it’s unfair or unequal.
Kellyanne Conway -
I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.
Jasmine Guinness -
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Peter Morgan -
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.
George Bernard Shaw -
Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.
Jimmy Walker -
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
Tom Stoppard
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
Joel Osteen -
I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.
James Hibberd -
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
Luther Campbell -
When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.
Andrew Yan -
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
Edward Burtynsky -
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
Courteney Cox
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Work allows us to take care of God's creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.
Eric Metaxas -
It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?
David Autor -
I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
John Mellencamp