Work Quotes
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I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.
Philip Glass
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I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.
Alexa Chung
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I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.
Megan Hilty
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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Steve Jobs
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Even when things are stable, that's not easy to work in Africa because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.
Bill Gates
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We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
John Barrasso
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On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.
Maria Semple
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You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.
Ben Eine
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch
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I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.
Stephen McCauley
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You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.
Angie Thomas
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I'm trying to go through moral crisis myself to the highest degree that I can, to remove moral crisis from the visual vocabulary of the viewer, so that when somebody sees my work, the only thing that they see is the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Jeff Koons
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Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
Jenna Wortham
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Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator Bernie Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.
Hillary Clinton
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I really appreciate that: to walk into an environment where everyone is serious and dedicated to creating the best performance possible and challenging themselves to figure out the most interesting way to approach the work.
Aja Naomi King
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'It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.'
Bernard Cornwell
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You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.
Marie Osmond
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The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.
John Lanchester
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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.
Amy Sillman
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I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
John Lloyd Young
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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 would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.
Jonathan Anderson