Work Quotes
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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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When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.
Bryan Talbot
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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.
Edward Zwick
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When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
Jacques Barzun
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Friends ask me to pick the best 11 players, but sometimes the best 11 players are not the best team. So it's something that you have to work together.
Ivan Rakitić
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Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.
Allison Anders
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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
Thomas Carlyle
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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
John Hewson
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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
George Pataki
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I like a girl who knows what she wants and makes me work for her.
Zayn Malik One Direction
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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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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
Joanna Coles
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
Jeff Bezos
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Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
Antony Beevor
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Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it.
Adrienne Maloof
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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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Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
Bentley Little
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
Thomas A. Edison
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I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.
David Thewlis
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I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.
Johnny Depp
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I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.
Syd
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The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
Judith Ellen Foster
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
Eugene Delacroix