Work Quotes
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I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
John Cusack
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Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It's a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me.
Coco Rocha
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I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.
Benigno Aquino III
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
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Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.
John C. Reilly
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
Anne Stevenson
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Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit, and by magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
Douglas Coupland
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Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
John Roger Stephens
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Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.
Britta Phillips
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Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
Scott Adams
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If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.
Charles E. Merrill
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Others may recognise their world in 'Eat Sleep Work Repeat'. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why.
David Hepworth
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I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.
Ronan Keating Boyzone
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The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
Tony Kushner
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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.
Alexis Wright
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The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
Donald Luskin
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It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.
Jimmy Smits
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That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
Nan Goldin
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To the extent that the Trump administration doesn't like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you're raising rates and they're cutting rates is not going to work.
Austan Goolsbee
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I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.
Uwem Akpan
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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
Plato
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I travel a lot because of work. Also but because of that, I think I get inspired by what you're wearing, what everybody's wearing. I like to people watch.
Jessica Jung