Work Quotes
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I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
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I love all Goop products, but I'll always have the Revitalizing Day Moisturizer on my desk at work or in my handbag.
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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
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I think I'm a guy who's going to work and work hard from Day 1, and I think I'm a guy who brings a lot of versatility to the position.
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Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.
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When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.
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Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’.
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I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.
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I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
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When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
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It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.
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I'm booby and kind of curvy, so I definitely need to wear things that work with that. I can't just put on a muumuu, because it looks crazy on me.
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You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,' and it be in the wrong place in the wrong show, and expect the song to work theatrically.
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I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.
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Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
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The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
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Rides like this are engineering marvels for all the controls that need to be in place for it to work right.
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
