Work Quotes
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Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
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If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
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I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.
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Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.
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No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
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When I wrote 'The Rozabal Line,' I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed 'The Rozabal Line' as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.
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Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.
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Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.
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They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
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Location is all about the efficiency of work for me.
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Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.
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It's part of the culture at ILM and at Lucasfilm that the work is better when you collaborate, you know. There's this culture of open exchange, a wonderful ego-free sharing of ideas and talent.
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I did some different things mechanically that took me a while to get out of. I'm looking forward to getting back and getting 100 percent for next year. I'm going to look at this season as, hopefully, a learning experience and go home and work as hard as I have been in the offseason and get ready for next year.
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Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
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Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.
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It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.
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In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.
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I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.
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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.
