Work Quotes
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Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?
Alex Pareene
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I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
Joan Cusack
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
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I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.
Adrian Tomine
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To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
Summer Sanders
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I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
Andrea Riseborough
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Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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As far as passenger cars are concerned, I have always said, in the past, we will work more with partners and partnerships. Our focus on our own would be on the SUVs.
Anand Mahindra
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I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.
Margo Lanagan
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We support regional generation, particularly for nuclear. It's just a large investment. We think it's something a community comes around to make those investments work, and South Carolina is very committed to nuclear generation.
Lynn Good
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I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
Eva Herzigova
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The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry
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It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.
Judd Nelson
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Everyone needs different things. That's why trading works.
Wang Yi
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I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.
Ed McBain
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Some films, you're lucky enough to get some rehearsal, which is just basic going through the scene, and, 'These are my questions, and this is what I'm trying to achieve,' and you work things out, and maybe a few line changes here or there.
Alan Tudyk
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It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
Jared Harris
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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’.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.
Heber J. Grant
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My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but find a pathway that becomes clearer.
Ali Banisadr
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To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
John C. Reilly
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But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.
Esme Raji Codell
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer