Work Quotes
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The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.
Mary Pilon
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I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
Ashton Kutcher
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Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
Colin Ford
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
Benjamin Earl King
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I am humbled at the fact that I always get great support and reviews from my critics, but it's the film that requires to be good enough for it to work.
Ali Fazal
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I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.
Kyle Dunnigan
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You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
Epictetus
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I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.
Barun Sobti
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As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.
Amy Klobuchar
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Oh, it was work and no fooling. I enjoyed it very much, because I didn’t have to do it.
Frederik Pohl
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We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is — on the brink of catastrophe — torn by polarizing hate and how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
Jon Stewart
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When I was at high school, I used to pretend that I had work, and I would go and tell the head of school that I, like, really needed to leave, and I was really stressed out because I had work.
Kendall Jenner
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If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.
Virgil Abloh
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If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
John Darnielle
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Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.
James Luceno
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Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.
Questlove
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If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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There's nothing better than seeing people you know being able to work and support their families. Knowing you have a little hand in it? Now, that really makes you feel good.
Robert James Ritchi
