Work Quotes
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Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.
Bill Gates
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Don't do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you're going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know this within a few pages.
Lisa Jewell
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There are so few people who can come into this league at 18 years old and be able to grasp what is going on and ... put in all the work and still produce and get so much better in the first three years. He's done the right things. I'm not so sure how I would have acted if I was given $100 million.
Eric Snow
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There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.
Kelli O'Hara
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Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
Tim Ferriss
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Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
Elaine de Kooning
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf
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I really did Regression to work with Alejandro Amenabar. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.
Ethan Hawke
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I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.
George Strait
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I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
Ryne Sandberg
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I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.
Jesse Kellerman
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In modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.
Jordin Sparks
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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.
Winslow Homer
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I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?
Kevin O'Leary
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It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.
Benjamin McKenzie
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If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what's less important and not the main thing.
Ayelet Shaked
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I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.
Harvey Keitel
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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.
Budd Hopkins
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
Ken Robinson
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LaRon Landry, a safety, is in incredible physical condition - really impressive. Also Anthony Castonzo, the left tackle - I'm very impressed with him. He really sets a great example for how to stay in shape - not only during the off-season but throughout the season, which can be a struggle because of the rhythm of the way things work.
Andrew Luck
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I have to work, for my soul.
Jennifer Lopez