Work Quotes
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Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns
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Steady work turns genius to a loom.
George Eliot
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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
Harry Shearer
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I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
Cate Blanchett
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I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.
Kip Winger
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
Oscar Wilde
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As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.
Johnny Flynn
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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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I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
Jeff Koons
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You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.
Paul Rodgers Bad Company
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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.
John Ashcroft
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And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.
Rumi
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I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick.
Adam Sandler
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The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.
Marilyn Minter
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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
John C. Maxwell
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It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
Harvey Pekar
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
Al Pacino
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I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.
Caroline Wozniacki
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
Nic Pizzolatto
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In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.
Edward Enninful
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All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.
Bill Clinton