Work Quotes
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
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The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
Colin Cotterill
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Enjoy every moment because it is so good and just a testament to all the work you've put in.
Maren Morris
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Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.
Karen Lord
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Unlike the members of the physical and biological sciences, the economist is asked to explain his work in a manner that is interesting and convincing to a weary listener. Yet there is no reason to believe that the explanation of our economic and social world is inherently simpler than the explanation of our physical world.
George Stigler
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I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.
Lee Hall
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I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.
Eddie Griffin
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
Twyla Tharp
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My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
Neil Oliver
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Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.
Harrison Ford
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God blessed me with great talent and good genetics. Plus, he blessed me with a good work ethic and a drive to want to be the best.
Benjamin Watson
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By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
Martin Parr
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
John Ruskin
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I love hard work. If I'm not sweating, then I'm not working.
Max Aaron
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Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!
Andre Leon Talley
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I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
Abi Morgan
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There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.
Buddy Wakefield
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Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Auguste Renoir
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There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.
Jaron Lanier
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I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.
Alice Englert
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A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.
Emil Ruder
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You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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I was asked, 'Why do you think the male 'X Factor' winners haven't been successful in the past?' And I said, 'Because obviously the body of work that they've brought out wasn't good enough,' and that was it.
James Arthur