Work Quotes
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
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There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.
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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.
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I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
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Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.
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My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.
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If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
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The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.
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Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.
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Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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I am a working mom, so to be able to have a space for my kids as well as a space for my work, it's just great. That is what balance is.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.
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We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
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In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
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Work is life. Work is opportunity.
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I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.
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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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If you want learning, you must work for it.
